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Luca Leporini, Ferhat Yaman, Tommaso Andreussi and Vittorio Giannetti
Hall thrusters are plasma-based devices that have established themselves as one of the most attractive and mature electric propulsion technologies for space applications. These devices often operate in a regime characterized by low frequency, large ampli...
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Kyung-Hoon Jang, Sang-Won Seo and Dong-Jin Kim
In this paper, we present the optimized air space of the lightning protection rod (SK-AOR380) with the function of a charge transfer system (CTS). For evaluation of CTS in the laboratory setting, some studies have focused on the modification of the struc...
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Yoshinori Matsuda, Koji Kakutani and Hideyoshi Toyoda
This study developed an unattended electric weeder (UEW) to control floor weeds in an orchard greenhouse. The UEW was a motor-driven dolly equipped with a spark exposer. The spark exposer was constructed by applying an alternating voltage (10 kV) to a co...
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Victor V. Kuzenov, Sergei V. Ryzhkov and Aleksey Yu. Varaksin
This paper provides an overview of modern research on magnetoplasma methods of influencing gas-dynamic and plasma flows. The main physical mechanisms that control the interaction of plasma discharges with gaseous moving media are indicated. The ways of o...
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Yajie Han, Guangqing Xia, Bin Sun, Junjun Zhang, Liuwei Chen and Chang Lu
This paper presents the development, analysis, and performance evaluation of a novel transversal-feed Electron Cyclotron Resonance Plasma Thruster (ECRPT). The ECRPT operates based on the transversal-feed principle and incorporates optimized structural d...
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Pau Bas-Calopa, Jordi-Roger Riba and Juan Antonio Ortega
Strict regulations issued by international administrative bodies limit the CO2 equivalent emissions for new aircraft, while increasing efficiency requirements. To reach this goal, next generations of aircraft will use more electrical power than their pre...
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Qi Liu, Yong Li, Yanlin Hu and Wei Mao
The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of a magnetic field gradient on the performance of a magnetically shielded Hall thruster. The Particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collision method (PIC-MCC) is used to simulate the discharge process...
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Tongben Wang, Zhifei Ma, Jingming Jiang and Qi Chen
The electric transmission failure induced by the electrostatic migration and deposition of the friction-pair-produced abrasive dusts in the Solar Array Drive Assembly (SADA) is studied for the first time by integrating experiments and Finite Element Meth...
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Robert Daren Harmel, Heather Elise Preisendanz, Kevin Wayne King, Dennis Busch, Francois Birgand and Debabrata Sahoo
Technological advances and resource constraints present scientists and engineers with renewed challenges in the design of methods to conduct water quality monitoring, and these decisions ultimately determine the degree of project success. Many profession...
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Alexander Kotvitskii, Pavel Kazanskii and Ivan Moralev
The pulse electric arc discharge in an external magnetic field is studied as a vortex generator in the subsonic boundary layer. A pulsed Ampere force induces a hairpin vortex near the wall; its structure depends on the relative direction of arc propagati...
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