Atmosphere • Vol 11 • No 5
Fast Camera Analysis of Plasma Instabilities in Hall Effect Thrusters Using a POD Method under Different Operating Regimes
May 2020 • Victor Désangles, Sergey Shcherbanev, Thomas Charoy, Noé Clément, Clarence Deltel, P. Richard, Simon Vincent, Pascal Chabert, Anne Bourdon
Even after half a century of development, many phenomena in Hall Effect Thrusters are still not well-understood. While numerical studies are now widely used to study this highly non-linear system, experimental diagnostics are needed to validate their results and identify specific oscillations. By varying the cathode heating current, its emissivity is efficiently controlled and a transition between two functioning regimes of a low power thruster is observed. This transition implies a modification of the axial elect…