Open AccessCharacteristics plasma environment isolated conductor surface charging time domain
Author(s) -
Cao He-Fei,
Shanghe Liu,
Ye Sun,
Qingyun Yuan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.62.149401
Subject(s) - spacecraft charging , plasma , conductor , spacecraft , surface (topology) , radius , physics , time domain , voltage , electrostatics , mechanics , materials science , computational physics , computer science , geometry , quantum mechanics , composite material , mathematics , computer vision , computer security , astronomy
Spacecraft surface charging and discharging in a plasma environment are affected by many factors, and the charging time is an important factor to influence the discharging frequency. In this paper, considering microstructure and material parameters of the plasma characteristics, appling the principles of mechanics to each particle, and using statistical methods, the expression of isolated conductor ball surface charging potential time-domain is deduced. Using the general expression of voltage, we deduce the expression of the time domain of electrostatic charging quantity of isolated conducting sphere and the expression of the time domain of the electrostatic field energy. Taking low earth orbit and geosynchronous orbit for example, we discuss the potential of isolated conducting sphere, static load and the characteristics of the electrostatic field energy. The influences of space environment parameters and the size of the conducting sphere radius on surface charging are analyzed. The laws of the time domain of isolated conductor surface charging in plasma environment are summarized.