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中国物理学会期刊

霍尔电推进剥落物致放电扰动机理

Mechanisms of the Discharge Disturbance Based on the Exfoliation in the Hall Electric Propulsion

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  • 霍尔电推进放电扰动对在轨工作可靠性有显著影响,为明晰放电扰动的诱发机理,本文提出一种霍尔电推进壁面剥落物输运的二维数值模型,具体地,除模拟等离子体的输运过程之外,重点模拟剥落物在等离子体流场中的电荷吸附、输运和与离子的碰撞过程,结合电源的反馈调节模型,实现剥落物诱发放电扰动微观过程的数值模拟,获取了放电扰动的诱发机理。在此基础上,为验证机理研究的正确性,在真空舱内开展霍尔推力器放电扰动的监测试验,通过示波器和高速摄像机采集放电扰动过程中的电流和图像数据,以试验结果和计算结果进行对比,验证计算结果的正确性。主要结论如下,霍尔电推进存在两种形式的放电扰动,一种是剥落物向下游运动的载流锐减型扰动(已有文献公布),另一种是剥落物向阳极运动的载流突增型扰动(未有文献公布),并且,放电扰动的形成与剥落物对电离作用的衰减和剥落物对阳极的电荷沉积有直接关系。本文研究为放电扰动抑制方法的建立提供理论依据。

    The discharge disturbance of Hall thruster has been exerted a significant impact on the on-orbit operational reliability in the propulsion system. In order to clarify the triggering mechanism of the discharge disturbance, the present study proposes a two-dimensional numerical model for the wall exfoliation transportation in Hall electric propulsion. Specifically, besides the transport process simulation of plasma, the numerical simulation of the microscopic process of the disturbance triggered by the exfoliation is achieved by simulating the process of charge absorption, transport, and collision of the exfoliation in the plasma flow field, combined with the feedback regulation model of the power supply. The calculation results showed that the detachment and transport of the exfoliation can triggered the current fluctuation simultaneously, and the electron density distribution and anode current fluctuation data at several typical moments could be used to compare the evolution of the two kinds of discharge disturbances. On this basis, to verify the correctness of the mechanism research, a discharge disturbance monitoring test of Hall thruster in a vacuum chamber was conducted. Current and image data during the discharge disturbance process were collected using an oscilloscope and a high-speed camera. It was found from the test that the discharge disturbance was synchronous with the detachment and transport of the exfoliation, and the different discharge disturbance forms were caused by the different movement direction of the exfoliation to the upstream/downstream. The main conclusions are as follows: Hall propulsion has two forms of discharge disturbance. One is the plummeting current-carrying type disturbance caused by the downstream movement of the exfoliation (already published in the literature), and the other is the soaring current-carrying type disturbance caused by the upstream movement of the exfoliation (not published in the literature). Moreover, the formation of discharge disturbance is directly related to the attenuation of the ionization by the exfoliation and the charge deposition of the exfoliation onto the anode. This study provides a theoretical basis for the establishment of methods to suppress discharge disturbance.

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