TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of Plasma Fluid Model for a Microwave Rocket Supported by a Magnetic Field
AU - Takahashi, Masayuki
N1 - Funding Information:
Development of Plasma Fluid Model for a Microwave Rocket Supported by a Magnetic Field
Funding Information:
The development of numerical models was supported by Dr. Jean-Pierre Boeuf at the University of Toulouse. The computations in this work were performed on a FUJITSU PRIMEHPC FX100 at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP16J09910.
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© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2017/11/7
Y1 - 2017/11/7
N2 - A uid model of plasma transport is developed to reproduce a plasma pattern induced by microwave irradiation when an external magnetic field is applied to the breakdown volume. Transport coefficients in the uid model are evaluated using a fully kinetic simulation under a magnetic field to maintain consistency of electron transport between the particle and uid models. The electron-density profile and propagation speed of the ionization front obtained by the uid model agree with those of the particle model. Multidimensional or longer time-scale simulations can be conducted using the uid model in the case of the application of an external magnetic field, with the simulation reducing computational cost compared to the fully kinetic model.
AB - A uid model of plasma transport is developed to reproduce a plasma pattern induced by microwave irradiation when an external magnetic field is applied to the breakdown volume. Transport coefficients in the uid model are evaluated using a fully kinetic simulation under a magnetic field to maintain consistency of electron transport between the particle and uid models. The electron-density profile and propagation speed of the ionization front obtained by the uid model agree with those of the particle model. Multidimensional or longer time-scale simulations can be conducted using the uid model in the case of the application of an external magnetic field, with the simulation reducing computational cost compared to the fully kinetic model.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/905/1/012024
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/905/1/012024
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85034580518
VL - 905
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
SN - 1742-6588
IS - 1
M1 - 012024
T2 - 28th Annual IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics, CCP 2016
Y2 - 10 July 2016 through 14 July 2016
ER -