或ifice 空心阴极中稀稀疏氙气流动
摘要
对 keeper 电极几何形状对空心阴极中中性流动量的影响进行参数化研究,旨在量化其在阴极点火前的作用。keeper 直接冲击阴极或ifice 的流出,其几何形状强烈影响了或ifice-keeper 区域内压强与阴极至 keeper 距离之间的乘积 ,这是成功阴极点火的关键参数。使用直接蒙特卡洛方法模拟装有 keeper 的代表性阴极。首先与文献中的计算结果进行验证,然后进行参数化研究。参数包括阴极压力-直径范围为 1-5 Torr-cm 的参数,以及以下几何比值:阴极 orifice 到阴极内半径范围为 0.1-0.7,keeper orifice 到阴极 orifice 半径范围为 1-5,以及 keeper 距离到阴极 orifice 直径范围为 0.5-10。如果 keeper 与阴极的 orifice 半径相同,流动在阴极 orifice-keeper 区域保持亚声速。但在大多数情况下,流动会膨胀并达到超声速,或ifice-keeper 区域的静压力平均为来upstream 压力值的 4%。随着 keeper orifice 直径减小或阴极 orifice 板与 keeper 板之间的距离增加,或ifice-keeper 区域的压力增加,与文献数据一致。通过基于控制体的守恒定律解释这些趋势。点火到 nominal 质量流量比值在 9-120 范围内变化,最可能值为 40,与文献数据一致。这表明通过将输入质量流量提高 40 倍,可在最小 DC 电压下实现无加热阴极点火。
引用
@article{arxiv.2411.05090,
title = {Rarefied xenon flow in orificed hollow cathodes},
author = {Pierre-Yves C. R. Taunay and Willca Villafana and Sangeeta P. Vinoth and Igor Kaganovich and Andrei Khodak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.05090},
year = {2025}
}
备注
26 pages, 30 figures, 4 tables. Submitted to Journal of Applied Physics. Changes address reviewer comments: title change, text and figure clarifications, and text additions. Significant additions are a method by which mass flow rate may be estimated and a computation of the case for which the keeper orifice diameter is smaller than that of the cathode tube. All results remain unchanged