变电压下霍尔推力器放电特性的分析-analysis of hall thruster discharge characteristics under variable voltage.docx

AbstractThe Hall Effect Thruster (HET) is a kind of electric propulsion devices which is mature both in theory and application. The advantages of HET are simple structure, high specific impulse, efficiency and reliability. With the development of long life satellite platform and deep space exploitation, high specific impulse becomes an important direction of development of HET. It has been proved by theory and experiments that the specific impulse can be increased by increasing discharge voltage. However, it has also been found in experiments that under high discharge voltage, the discharge characteristics of HET changes obviously. The main phenomena are “electron temperature saturation” when increasing discharge voltage without changing magnetic field, and “electron current increase under high discharge voltage” when adjusting magnetic field to discharge voltages. This thesis starts with these two phenomena, and vary-discharge-voltage HET discharge characteristics are researched in detail.First of all, based on the application background and actual demand of vary-discharge-voltage operation of HET, vary-discharge-voltage characteristics is researched in detail experimentally in this thesis with comparison to foreign experimental research. The experimental characteristics of HET under two kinds of vary-discharge-voltage operating mode (with and without changing magnetic field) are summarized and compared. Experimental foundation for theoretical analysis is built.PIC simulation, which is based on the fundamental physical processes and statistical methods, is the main method of HET numerical simulation. By using this method, qualitative simulation to the experimental phenomena is performed. The simulation results show that, without changing magnetic field, the magnetic field adjusted under low discharge voltage cannot satisfy high voltage operation requirements. Meanwhile, a sudden change of the parameters in discharge channel occurs when increasing discharge voltage.