Advanced Space Propulsion for Innovative Realization of space Exploration

Project Information

ASPIRE

Grant agreement ID: 101004366

DOI 10.3030/101004366

Project closed

EC signature date 28 October 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 March 2024

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Space

Total cost € 3 717 041,25

EU contribution € 2 999 953,88

Coordinated by

SITAEL SPA
Italy

Deliverables

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Virtual Testing Suite

The Machine Learning / AI software suite for AQS, tested against real data and ready for deployment

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Documents, reports (7)

Plan for the dissemination of results, final issue

Final issue of the Dissemination Plan. Includes report on dissemination activities carried out during the Project.

Key Performance Indicators, final issue

Final issue of the KPI report

Plan for the dissemination of results, issue 1

First issue of the Dissemination Plan

Key Performance Indicators, issue 2

Second issue of the KPI report.

Plan for the dissemination of results, issue 2

Second issue of the Dissemination Plan

Key Performance Indicators report, issue 1

First issue of the KPI report

Plan for the dissemination of results, issue 3

Third issue of the Dissemination Plan

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Aspire website

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Influence of the magnetic field curvature on the radial–azimuthal dynamics of a Hall thruster plasma discharge with different propellants

Author(s): Maryam Reza, Farbod Faraji, Aaron Knoll
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, 2023, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0176579

Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Longitudinal Oscillations in Hall Thrusters

Author(s): Vittorio Giannetti; M. M. Saravia; Luca Leporini; Simone Camarri; Tommaso Andreussi
Published in: Aerospace, Issue 8, 148 (monthly publication), 2021, ISSN 2226-4310
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/aerospace8060148

Dynamic mode decomposition for data-driven analysis and reduced-order modeling of E × B plasmas: I. Extraction of spatiotemporally coherent patterns

Author(s): Farbod Faraji, Maryam Reza, Aaron Knoll, J. Nathan Kutz
Published in: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2024, ISSN 0022-3727
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ad0910

Resolving multi-dimensional plasma phenomena in Hall thrusters using the reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme

Author(s): Maryam Reza, Farbod Faraji, Aaron Knoll
Published in: Journal of Electric Propulsion, 2022, ISSN 2731-4596
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s44205-022-00019-6

Concept of the generalized reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme and verification in an axial-azimuthal Hall thruster configuration

Author(s): Maryam Reza, Farbod Faraji, Aaron Knoll
Published in: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2023, ISSN 0022-3727
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/acbb15

Dynamic mode decomposition for data-driven analysis and reduced-order modeling of E × B plasmas: II. Dynamics forecasting

Author(s): Farbod Faraji, Maryam Reza, Aaron Knoll, J. Nathan Kutz
Published in: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2024, ISSN 0022-3727
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ad0911

Reduced-order particle-in-cell simulations of a high-power magnetically shielded Hall thruster

Author(s): Maryam Reza, Farbod Faraji, Aaron Knoll, Antonio Piragino, Tommaso Andreussi, Tommaso Misuri
Published in: Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2023, ISSN 0963-0252
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/acdea3

Effects of the neutral dynamics model on the particle-in-cell simulations of a Hall thruster plasma discharge

Author(s): Farbod Faraji, Maryam Reza, Aaron Knoll
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, 2023, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0143292

Enhancing one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations to self-consistently resolve instability-induced electron transport in Hall thrusters

Author(s): Farbod Faraji, Maryam Reza, Aaron Knoll
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, 2022, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0090853

Verification of the generalized reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme in a radial–azimuthal E × B plasma configuration

Author(s): Farbod Faraji, Maryam Reza, Aaron Knoll
Published in: AIP Advances, 2023, ISSN 2158-3226
Publisher: American Institute of Physics Inc.
DOI: 10.1063/5.0136889

Three-dimensional neutralizer effects on a Hall-effect thruster near plume

Author(s): Filippo Cichocki, Adrián Domínguez-Vázquez, Mario Merino, Pablo Fajardo, Eduardo Ahedo
Published in: Acta Astronautica, Issue vol. 187 pp. 498-510, 2021, ISSN 0094-5765
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.06.042

Parametric investigation of azimuthal instabilities and electron transport in a radial-azimuthal E × B plasma configuration

Author(s): Maryam Reza, Farbod Faraji, Aaron Knoll
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, 2023, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0138223

Conference proceedings (5)

Machine-learning-enabled plasma modeling and prediction

Author(s): Farbod Faraji, Maryam Reza and Aaron Knoll
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Aerospace Research Central (AIAA)
DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-2708

Reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme: Redefining kinetic modeling for electric plasma propulsion

Author(s): Maryam Reza, Farbod Faraji and Aaron Knoll
Published in: 2024
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-2709

Latest verifications of the reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme: Penning discharge and axial-radial Hall thruster case

Author(s): Maryam Reza, Farbod Faraji and Aaron Knoll
Published in: 2024
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Asronautics
DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-2712

"Reduced-order ""pseudo-2D"" particle-in-cell scheme for the prediction of multi-dimensional phenomena in Hall thrusters"

Author(s): Maryam Reza, Farbod Faraji, Aaron Knoll
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Electric Rocket Propulsion Society

Insights from reduced-order particle-in-cell simulations into the plasma behavior in a high-power magnetically shielded Hall thruster

Author(s): Farbod Faraji, Maryam Reza, Aaron Knoll
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Electric Rocket Propulsion Society