Selected (recent) publications

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2023

• • J.P. Boeuf and A. Smolyakov,  Physics and instabilities of low temperature ExB plasmas for spacecraft propulsion and other applications, Tutorial, Phys. Plasmas 300501 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0145536 

  • J. P. Boeuf, Spoke formation in low temperature E×B plasmas. Transition from gradient-drift instability to ionization wave, Phys. Plasmas 30, 022112 (2023) ,  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.013688

  • M. Tyushev, M. Zadeh, V. Sharma, M. Sengupta, Y. Raitses, J. P. Boeuf and A. Smolyakov, Azimuthal structures and turbulent transport in Penning discharges, Phys. Plasmas 30, 033506 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0129804

  • F Deluzet, J Narski, M Ndiaye, G Hagelaar, JP Boeuf, Numerical methods and macroscopic models of magnetically confined low temperature plasmas , Kinetic and Related Models 16, 624-653 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3934/krm.2023002

2022

• • J.P. Boeuf, Ionization waves (striations) in a low-current plasma column revisited with kinetic and fluid models,  Phys. Plasmas 29, 22105 (2022) , https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0079019

  •  Guglielmi, F. Gaboriau and J. P. Boeuf, Simultaneous measurements of axial motion and azimuthal rotation of non-uniformities (“spokes”) in a Hall thruster, Phys. Plasmas 29, 112108 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0111975 

  • O. Chapurin, A. I. Smolyakov, G. Hagelaar, J. P. Boeuf and Y. Raitses, Fluid and hybrid simulations of the ionization instabilities in Hall thruster, Journal of Applied Physics 132, 053301 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0094269

2021

• •  W. Villafana, F. Petronio, A. C. Denig, M. J. Jimenez, D. Eremin, L. Garrigues, F. Taccogna, A. Alvarez-Laguna, J. P. Boeuf, A. Bourdon, P. Chabert, T. Charoy, B. Cuenot, K. Hara, F. Pechereau, A. Smolyakov, D. Sydorenko, A. Tavant and O. Vermorel, 2D radial-azimuthal particle-in-cell benchmark for E × B discharges, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 30, 075002 (2021),  https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ac0a4

2020

• • J.P. Boeuf, New insights into the physics of rotating spokes in partially magnetized ExB  plasmas , Phys. Plasmas  27 083520 (2020)  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.001435

  •  J. P. Boeuf and M. Takahashi, Rotating Spokes, Ionization Instability, and Electron Vortices in Partially Magnetized E × B Plasmas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 185005 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.185005

  • I. D. Kaganovich, A. Smolyakov, Y. Raitses, E. Ahedo, I. G. Mikellides, B. Jorns, F. Taccogna, R. Gueroult, S. Tsikata, A. Bourdon, J.-P. Boeuf, M. Keidar, A. T. Powis, M. Merino, M. Cappelli, K. Hara, J. A. Carlsson, N. J. Fisch, P. Chabert, I. Schweigert, T. Lafleur, K. Matyash, A. V. Khrabrov, R. W. Boswell and A. Fruchtman, Physics of E × B discharges relevant to plasma propulsion and similar technologies, Phys. Plasmas 27, 120601 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0010135

2019

• • T. Charoy, J. P. Boeuf, A. Bourdon, J. A. Carlsson, P. Chabert, B. Cuenot, D. Eremin, L. Garrigues, K. Hara, I. D. Kaganovich, A. T. Powis, A. Smolyakov, D. Sydorenko, A. Tavant, O. Vermorel and W. Villafana, 2D axial-azimuthal particle-in-cell benchmark for low-temperature partially magnetized plasmas, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28, 105010 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ab46c5b

  • J. P. Boeuf, Micro instabilities and rotating spokes in the near-anode region of partially magnetized plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 26, 072113 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5102162 

2018

• •  J. P. Boeuf and L. Garrigues, E x B electron drift instability in Hall thrusters: Particle-in-cell simulations vs. theory, Phys. Plasmas 25 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5017033