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Particles, Volume 7, Issue 1
March 2024 - 16 articles
Cover Story: The erosion of accelerating chamber walls is one of the main factors limiting the operational life of Hall-effect thrusters (HETs), and it is mainly related to the sputtering of ceramic walls due to the impacting energetic ion particles. The phenomenon is often investigated using a numerical model that couples a plasma model for evaluating the local distributions of ion energies and incidence angles and a sputtering model specific for the propellant-wall material pair. The paper particularly focuses on Xenon—Borosil, which is the most used in HET applications. The study has identified that wall temperature has a considerable effect on the numerical prediction of sputtering and that further experimental data would deeply contribute to the development of accurate numerical models. View this paper
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