supported by the Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Plasma Physics and Applied Technology。
The helicon plasma source,which generates high thrust and high impulse,is of vital importance for magnetoplasma rocket engines.In this work,a multi-component,two-dimensional,axisymmetric fluid model coupled with an el...
financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11805265);Key Laboratory of Micro-Satellites,Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.KFKT201903)。
The performance of an iodine radio ion thruster with a 4 cm diameter(IRIT4)was studied experimentally in this paper.Regulation of the mass flow rates of the iodine propellant is achieved by using a temperature control...
National Natural Science Foundation of China for the financial assistance provided under the grant number 11772354.
In order to further improve the propulsion performance of pulsed plasma thrusters for space micro propulsion,a novel laser ablation pulsed plasma thruster is proposed,which separated the laser ablation and electromagn...
supported in part by the fund of Science and Technology on Vacuum Technology and the Physics Laboratory of Lanzhou Institute of Physics under grant YSC0715;in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 62601210;in part by the Civil Aerospace Technology Research Project under grant D010509
An ECR ion thruster with a diameter of 5 cm has been developed and tested. Four different antenna positions were experimentally and numerically investigated, and the results suggest that the optimal location for the a...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51506094)
In the background of electrothermal-chemical (ETC) emission,an investigation has been conducted on the characteristics of a freely expanding pulsed plasma jet in air.The evolutionary process of the plasma jet is exp...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.10905049);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Nos.53200859165,2562010050)
The surface shape of liquid water is well controlled during nanosecond pulse laser ablation plasma propulsion. In this study, we measured the effect of the shape on the coupling coefficient and the specific impulse. W...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.10905049);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Nos.2562011256,2562010050)
Acoustic waves generated in nanosecond pulsed-laser ablation of a solid target in both air and water-confined environments were measured experimentally. It was found that the amplitude of the acoustic wave tended to d...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.10905049);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.2010ZY52,2011YXL059)
The angular distribution and pressure force of droplets ejected from liquid water and glycerol ablated by nanosecond laser pulses are investigated under different viscosities in laser plasma propulsion. It is shown th...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.10334110,10510490 and 10675164)
Laser plasma propulsion in glass-layer confined ablation was experimentally investigated. The results showed that compared to that of direct ablation, the coupling coefficient was enhanced over ten times. By observing...
National Key Basic Research Special Foundation of China
Results in the air-breathing propulsion experiments with a parabolic light craft and a self-made UV-preionized 100 J TEA CO2 laser device are presented. Air disturbance and the spectrum of the plasma after the interac...