Satellite surface charging in LEO with ProPIC

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Di Fede, Simone, Elhadidi, Basman, Magarotto, Mirko, Chan, Wai Lee
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2025
• الموضوعات: Engineering; LEO spacecraft charging; LEO plasma wake
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182238
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

ProPIC is a fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) solver developed for space electric propulsion. This work has extended its capabilities to simulate satellite surface charging and wake generation in low Earth orbit (LEO). A novel scaling approach has been implemented, decreasing computational cost b...