Publications


  • The role of low frequency drift waves in driving non-classical transport in magnetic nozzles

    Shadrach T. Hepner and Benjamin Jorns

    VIRTUAL, https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2020-3644, August 17, 2020

  • Performance of a 9-kW Magnetically-Shielded Hall Thruster with Krypton

    Leanne L. Su , Alexander R. Vazsonyi and Benjamin Jorns

    VIRTUAL, https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2020-3617, August 17, 2020

  • Future Directions for Electric Propulsion Research

    Dale, Ethan; Jorns, Benjamin; Gallimore, Alec

    , https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/7/9/120/, August 17, 2020

  • State-of-the-Art and Advancement Paths for Inductive Pulsed Plasma Thrusters

    Polzin, Kurt; Martin, Adam; Little, Justin; Promislow, Curtis; Jorns, Benjamin; Woods, Joshua

    , https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/7/8/105, July 30, 2020

  • Operation of a High-Power Nested Hall Thruster with Reduced Cathode Flow Fraction

    Hall, Scott; Jorns, Benjamin; Gallimore, Alec

    University of Michigan, https://doi.org/10.2514/1.B37929, July 12, 2020

  • Wave-Driven Non-Classical Electron Transport in a Low Temperature Magnetically Expanding Plasma

    Hepner, Shadrach; Wachs, Benjamin; Jorns, Benjamin

    University of Michigan, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0012668, July 1, 2020

  • Investigation of the Hall Thruster Breathing Mode

    Dale, Ethan T.

    University of Michigan, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

  • Non-classical electron transport in the cathode plume of a Hall effect thruster

    Benjamin A. Jorns, Sarah E. Cusson, Zachariah Brown, and Ethan Dale

    Physics of Plasmas, 27, 022311, 18 February 2020

  • Background pressure effects on ion dynamics in a low-power magnetic nozzle thruster

    Benjamin Wachs, Benjamin Jorns

    Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 29 No. 4, 10 February 2020

  • Accelerating 23,000 hours of Ground Test Backsputtered Carbon on a Magnetically Shielded Hall Thruster

    Lobbia, R.B., Polk, J.E., Hofer, R.R., Chaplin, V.H., and Jorns, B.A

    AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2019 Forum, Indianapolis, IN, AIAA 2019-3898, 2019

  • Spatial Evolution of Small Wavelength Fluctuations in a Hall Thruster

    Brown, Z.A. and Jorns, B.A.

    Physics of Plasmas, 26, 113504, 2019

  • Magnetic nozzle efficiency in a low power inductive plasma source

    Collard, T.A., and Jorns, B.A.

    Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 28 No. 10, 29 October 2019

  • Non-invasive in situ measurement of the near-wall ion kinetic energy in a magnetically shielded Hall thruster

    Cusson, Sarah E.

    Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 28 No. 10, 21 October 2019

  • Impact of Neutral Density on the Operation of High-Power Magnetically Shielded Hall Thrusters

    Cusson, Sarah E.

    University of Michigan, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

  • Data-Driven Approach to Modeling and Development of a 30 kW Field-reversed Configuration Thruster

    Woods, J.M., Sercel, C.L., Gill, T.M., Viges, E., and Jorns, B.A.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-717, 2019

  • Model for the Increase in Thruster Efficiency from Cross-Channel Coupling in Nested Hall Thrusters

    Su, L.L., Hall, S.J., Cusson, S.E., and Jorns, B.A.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-204, 2019

  • Data-driven Models for the Effects of Background Pressure on the Operation of Hall Thrusters

    Byrne, M.P., and Jorns, B.A.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-630, 2019

  • University of Michigan’s Upgraded Large Vacuum Test Facility

    Viges, E.A., Jorns, B.A., Gallimore, A.D., and Sheehan, J.P.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-653, 2019

  • Experimental Correlation between Anomalous Electron Collision Frequency and Plasma Turbulence in a Hall Effect Thruster

    Brown, Z.A, Dale, E., and Jorns, B.A.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-843, 2019

  • Technique for Two-Frequency Optimization of an ECR Magnetic Nozzle Thruster

    Wachs, B., and Jorns, B.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-219, 2019

  • Dependence of Low Frequency Waves on Magnetic Field Strength in Hollow Cathode Plume

    Georgin, M.P., Jorns, B.A., Gallimore, A.D.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-249, 2019

  • Onset criterion for a turbulence-driven ionization instability in hollow cathodes

    Georgin, M.P., Jorns, B.A., Gallimore, A.D.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-155, 2019

  • Two-zone Hall thruster breathing mode mechanism, Part II: Experiment

    Dale, E.T., and Jorns, B.A.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-352, 2019

  • Two-zone Hall thruster breathing mode mechanism, Part I: Theory

    Dale, E.T., and Jorns, B.A.

    36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Vienna, Austria, IEPC-2019-354, 2019

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