Effect of dust on tilted electrostatic resistive instability in a Hall thruster

Effect of dust on tilted electrostatic resistive instability in a Hall thruster

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Abstract Effect of negatively charged dust on resistive instability corresponding to the electrostatic wave is investigated in a Hall thruster plasma when this purely azimuthal wave is tilted and strong axial component of wave vector is developed.Analytical calculations are done here to obtain the relevant dispersion equation, which is solved numerically to investigate the growth rate of the instability.The magnitude of the growth rate in the plasma having dust particles is found to be much smaller than the case of pure plasma.However, the instability grows faster for the increasing dust density and the higher charge here on the dust particles.

The higher magnetic field is also found to support the instability.