Plasma-Wall Interaction Modeling
Team Lead: Dr. Michael Keidar
2011-2012: The George Washington University (GWU) team has developed a multiscale model of the Hall thruster discharge in which a kinetic treatment will be used to model electron transport along magnetic field lines, while a 2D macroscopic model will be employed for the global thruster discharge. This multiscale formulation offers the benefit of self-consistently calculating electron mobilities while retaining the reduced computational requirements of a hybrid model. Additionally, GWU has perfomed simulations based on the initial operating points of the low-density plasma cell at GT HPEPL.
