Volume 26, Issue 4 No AccessParticle-Based Plasma Simulations for an Ion Engine Discharge ChamberSudhakar Mahalingam and James A. MenartSudhakar Mahalingam Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, Colorado 80303Search for more papers by this author and James A. Menart Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:23 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/1.45954SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookXLinked InRedditEmail About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee PDF for referencesCited byA domain decomposition parallelization scheme for the Poisson equation in particle-in-cell simulation1 May 2025 | Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 310An unstructured body-of-revolution electromagnetic particle-in-cell algorithm with radial perfectly matched layers and dual polarizations1 Sep 2024 | Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 302Kinetic investigation of discharge performance for Xe, Kr, and Ar in a miniature ion thruster using a fast converging PIC-MCC-DSMC model19 September 2024 | Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 33, No. 9Particle simulations of ion-extraction process from a decaying plasma assisted by radio-frequency plasma heating18 December 2023 | Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 32, No. 12Revealing the plasma confinement behavior of an axial ring cusp hybrid discharge in a miniature ion thruster using PIC/MCC simulation9 August 2023 | Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 32, No. 8Flow instability and momentum exchange in separation control by a synthetic jet9 June 2023 | Physics of Fluids, Vol. 35, No. 6Three-dimensional analysis of RF-biased ion optics with misalignments of apertures19 April 2023 | Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 32, No. 4Practical analysis of different neutral algorithms for particle simulation of Hall thruster21 March 2023 | Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 32, No. 3Current Status of Development and Application of Main Types of Electric Propulsion27 October 2022 | Plasma Physics Reports, Vol. 48, No. 9Investigation on the radial distribution of electron density in a miniaturized ECR ion thruster of wide-range operations1 Aug 2022 | Vacuum, Vol. 202Numerical simulation of the start-up process of a miniature ion thruster8 June 2022 | Plasma Science and Technology, Vol. 24, No. 7Ion Thruster Discharge Modeling with Adjustment of Coefficient of Anomalous Electron ConductivityDmirtii A. 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