Research within IPPL covers a broad range of topics relevant to the physics and engineering behind in-space propulsion. An overview of the group's research activities is provided below.

Research overview blocks

Water Electrolysis Hall Effect Thruster

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channel_oxidation

Oxidation and erosion reduction methods in water-fuelled HETs

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WETHET firing

RF excitation for Hall thruster performance enhancement

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Innovative MEMS based electrolysis micro-propulsion for CubeSats

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Spherical Tokamak Thruster

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Kinetic Particle-in-Cell plasma modelling

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Instabilities and turbulence-induced transport in ExB discharges

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Machine Learning/Data-Driven methods towards plasma modelling

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