Bulletin of the American Physical Society
75th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference
Volume 67, Number 9
Monday–Friday, October 3–7, 2022;
Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan
The session times in this program are intended for Japan Standard Time zone in Tokyo, Japan (GMT+9)
Session EW1: Aerospace Plasmas
8:00 AM–9:30 AM,
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Sendai International Center
Room: Hagi
Chair: Mark Koepke, West Virginia University
Abstract: EW1.00002 : Global and PIC Modeling of Air - Breathing Plasma Engines
8:15 AM–8:30 AM
Presenter:
Willca Villafana
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Authors:
Salman Sarwar
(Princeton University)
Igor D Kaganovich
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Alexander V Khrabrov
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Dmytro Sydorenko
(University of Alberta)
Willca Villafana
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
We consider a two - stage ABPE, with an electron beam driven ionization region and an E × B acceleration zone. We study the general feasibility of a model LEO satellite equipped with our proposed ABPE. We construct a global model for the ambient air generated plasma, formulating and solving the appropriate particle, energy, and momentum conservation equations in the presence of complex air chemistry and exploit kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) techniques to simulate the ionization and acceleration regions of the ABPE.
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