Electrodynamics of body plasma interactions

摘要

The Final Report on Electrodynamics of Body-Plasma Interactions is presented. Several aspects of the body-plasma interactions were studied. These included: (1) wake structure of the space shuttle; (2) spacecraft charging in response to an electron beam injection; (3) collection processes in a magnetized plasma; (4) simulation code to study the electrodynamics of a plasma contactor based on ionization of a neutral gas cloud in the vicinity of an electrode at a relatively high positive voltage; and (5) a fully 3-dimensional model for body-plasma interactions.