Energizing and depletion of neutrals by a collisional plasma
Energizing and depletion of neutrals by a collisional plasma
复制标题
碰撞等离子体对中性子的激发和消耗
DOI:
10.1088/0963-0252/17/2/024016
复制
发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
A. Fruchtman
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
A. Fruchtman
Neutral depletion can significantly affect the steady state of low temperature plasmas. Recent theoretical analyses predicted previously unexpected effects of neutral depletion in both collisional and collisionless regimes. In this paper we address the effect of the energy deposited in the neutral gas by a collisional plasma. The fraction of power deposited in the neutrals is shown to be independent of the amount of power. The first case we address is of a thermalized neutral gas. It is shown that a low heat conductivity of the neutral gas is followed by a high neutral temperature that results in a high neutral depletion even if the plasma pressure is small. In the second case neutrals are accelerated through charge exchange with ions leading to what we call neutral pumping, which is equivalent to ion pumping in a collisionless plasma. Neutral depletion is found in the second case for both a closed system (no net mass flow) and an open system (a finite mass flow). A thruster that employs a collisional plasma and pumped neutrals is compared with the thruster analyzed before that employs collisionless plasma.
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2003
期刊:
Proc.of XXVI International Conference on Phenomenon in Ionized Gases 1
影响因子:
--
作者:
Shunjiro Shinohara;et al.
通讯作者:
et al.