TY - GEN
T1 - Simulation of parallel-plate pulsed plasma Teflon® thruster based on the electromechanical model
AU - Yang, Lei
AU - Liu, Xiangyang
AU - Guo, Wenjun
AU - Wu, Zhiwen
AU - Wang, Ningfei
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Electric propulsion devices have been used widely in space flight mission for its superior performance. As a kind of electromagnetic thruster, the parallel-plate pulsed plasma thruster (PPT) as well as its operation process is theoretically analyzed and discussed. Based on the electromechanical model of PPT-an idealized, quasi-steady, analytic model including the ablated mass process of Teflon, an interactive intelligent computer-aided software which is used to predict the influences of variations of several electric parameters (capacitor capacitance, initial voltage, circuit resistance and electron temperature) and configuration parameters (electrodes distance, electrode width) on PPT performance is designed and implemented in MATLAB environment. And an application example of Lincoln Experimental Satellite VI (LES-6) PPT shows that this software has characteristics of easy operation, friendly human-computer interaction interface, high display speed and precision for PPT preliminary design. Finally, certain deficiencies in the presented model are identified and addressed with considerations for future improvement.
AB - Electric propulsion devices have been used widely in space flight mission for its superior performance. As a kind of electromagnetic thruster, the parallel-plate pulsed plasma thruster (PPT) as well as its operation process is theoretically analyzed and discussed. Based on the electromechanical model of PPT-an idealized, quasi-steady, analytic model including the ablated mass process of Teflon, an interactive intelligent computer-aided software which is used to predict the influences of variations of several electric parameters (capacitor capacitance, initial voltage, circuit resistance and electron temperature) and configuration parameters (electrodes distance, electrode width) on PPT performance is designed and implemented in MATLAB environment. And an application example of Lincoln Experimental Satellite VI (LES-6) PPT shows that this software has characteristics of easy operation, friendly human-computer interaction interface, high display speed and precision for PPT preliminary design. Finally, certain deficiencies in the presented model are identified and addressed with considerations for future improvement.
KW - Electric propulsion
KW - Electromechanical model
KW - Human-computer interaction
KW - Pulsed plasma thruster
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957966669&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICACC.2010.5487276
DO - 10.1109/ICACC.2010.5487276
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957966669
SN - 9781424458462
T3 - Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computer Control, ICACC 2010
SP - 148
EP - 151
BT - Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computer Control, ICACC 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computer Control, ICACC 2010
Y2 - 27 March 2010 through 29 March 2010
ER -