• DOI:10.5194/angeo-33-1507-2015
Corpus ID: 53511731

Boltzmann electron PIC simulation of the E-sail effect

@article{Janhunen2015BoltzmannEP,
  title={Boltzmann electron PIC simulation of the E-sail effect},
  author={P. Janhunen},
  journal={Annales Geophysicae},
  year={2015},
  volume={33},
  pages={1507-1512}
}

P. Janhunen

Published 2015

Physics

Annales Geophysicae

Abstract. The solar wind electric sail (E-sail) is a planned in-space propulsion device that uses the natural solar wind momentum flux for spacecraft propulsion with the help of long, charged, centrifugally stretched tethers. The problem of accurately predicting the E-sail thrust is still somewhat open, however, due to a possible electron population trapped by the tether. Here we develop a new type of particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation for predicting E-sail thrust. In the new simulation… CONTINUE READING

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