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Parallelization of particle-in-cell simulation modeling Hall-effect thrusters
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
MIT's fully kinetic particle-in-cell Hall thruster simulation is adapted for use on parallel clusters of computers. Significant computational savings are thus realized with a predicted linear speed up efficiency for certain ...
Fully-kinetic PIC simulations for Hall-effect thrusters
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
In recent years, many groups have numerically modeled the near-anode region of a Hall thruster in attempts to better understand the associated physics of thruster operation. Originally, simulations assumed a continuum ...