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Wave propagation and absorption in a Helicon plasma thruster and its plume

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Aeroespaciales
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Equipo de Propulsión Espacial y Plasmas (EP2)es
dc.contributor.authorJiménez Jiménez, Pedro José
dc.contributor.authorMerino Martínez, Mario
dc.contributor.authorAhedo Galilea, Eduardo Antonio
dc.contributor.funderComunidad de Madrides
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commissionen
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-20T10:12:03Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-20T12:05:12Z
dc.date.available2023-04-14T23:00:05Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-14
dc.description.abstractA two-dimensional, full-wave, frequency domain, cold plasma model is used to study electromagnetic power propagation and absorption in a helicon plasma thruster, including its far plume region and surrounding space. Re- sults show that a fraction of power is absorbed in the plume region, and that power deposition in the source is essentially unperturbed by the simulation domain size, the presence of metallic obstacles, or the plasma den- sity in the environment. An electron-cyclotron reso- nance (ECR) surface always exists downstream that ef- fectively prevents radiation to the space beyond along the plume. In the presence of an overdense environmen- tal plasma, like the one expected in a vacuum cham- ber, elds are fully evanescent beyond this transition, and vacuum chamber boundary conditions a ect but lit- tle the waveelds before this surface. In the absence of an environmental plasma, a double wave regime transition exists at the interface between the plasma and vacuum that hinders accurate numerical simulation in the plume region.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors want to thank the developers of the HYPHEN code, specially J. Zhou and A. Dom nguez- V azquez. The work of Pedro Jim enez has been sup- ported by the HIPATIA project, funded by the Euro- pean Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Pro- gram, under Grant Agreement number 870542. The work of Mario Merino and Eduardo Ahedo has been sup- ported by the PROMETEO project, funded by the Co- munidad de Madrid, under Grant reference Y2018/NMT- 4750 PROMETEO-CM.en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationJiménez, P., Merino, M., & Ahedo, E. (2022). Wave propagation and absorption in a helicon plasma thruster and its plume. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 31(4), 045009.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ac5ecd
dc.identifier.issn1361-6595
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage1
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage14
dc.identifier.publicationtitlePlasma Sources Science and Technologyen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume31
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/34577
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000030464
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherIOP Scienceen
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/870542en
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. Y2018/NMT- 4750 PROMETEO-CMes
dc.rights© 2022 IOP Publishing Ltd.en
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaFísicaes
dc.subject.otherWaves in plasmasen
dc.subject.otherElectric propulsionen
dc.subject.otherElectrodeless thrustersen
dc.subject.otherHelicon plasma thrusteren
dc.titleWave propagation and absorption in a Helicon plasma thruster and its plumeen
dc.typeresearch article*
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