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Thermal Models For A 3 Cm Miniature Xenon Ion Thruster, Coleman Thomas Younger
Thermal Models For A 3 Cm Miniature Xenon Ion Thruster, Coleman Thomas Younger
Master's Theses
In order to support UCLA’s development of the 3 cm Miniature Xenon Ion (MiXI) thruster, Cal Poly has a 3 cm thruster under development. This version, called MiXI Cal Poly Version 1 (MiXI-CPv1), is complete and has been utilized in vacuum chamber thermal validation testing. Testing on this version was used to check the validity of heat transfer simulations modeled in SolidWorks. Investigations of the 3 cm ion thruster configuration were intended to discover the driving factors affecting the thermal behavior of the discharge chamber and surrounding design space.
Numerical simulations indicate that the heating of the samarium cobalt permanent …