Hi everyone,
I’m working on simulating the interaction of a Hall-effect thruster (SPT100 has been chosen as an example) plasma plume with a cylindrical vacuum chamber. As a starting point, I’m modeling only the SPT100 plume, assuming the chamber walls act as open boundaries. To simplify things further, I’ve decided not to account for any collisions at this stage.
For the thruster boundary condition, I selected SPT100_300V_2mg_v1.0EC-1 as the device property in the Group Editor, applying it to the surface corresponding to the discharge channel. As for global parameter definitions, I’ve tried using the default globalParameters.xml file, as well as global configuration parameters from the examples, available on the SPINE website. Specifically, I referred to the examples provided in ValidationCases-6.1.0.zip and AdditionalSpisProjectsSample.zip.
Despite these efforts, after running the UI2NUM conversion, SPIS doesn’t seem to detect any volume or surface interactors or particle species associated with the thruster in my simulation.
Interestingly, when I run the UI2NUM conversion on the satellite propulsion example, the SPT100 thruster imports successfully.
Could anyone help me figure out what might be causing this issue in my simulation?
Thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
Egor