Development of the plasma thruster particle-in-cell simulator to complement empirical studies of a low-power cusped-field thruster

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, February 2013. === This electronic version was submitted and approved by the author's academic department as part of an electronic thesis pilot project. The certified thesis is available in the Insti...

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Main Author: Gildea, Stephen Robert
Other Authors: Manuel Martínez-Sánchez.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79338