HallThruster.jl
HallThruster.jl is an open-source, 1D fluid Hall thruster code written in Julia. It was initially developed by the University of Michigan's Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory and is licensed under the MIT license.
Installation
To install HallThruster.jl, you must first install Julia 1.7 or above from the official Julia site, or by using juliaup. We recommend using the latest Julia release when possible. Once installed, launch Julia and type
julia> ]add https://github.com/UM-PEPL/HallThruster.jlThis will install HallThruster.jl using Julia's package manager. For details on setting up and running Hall thruster simulations, see the official documentation. A Tutorial is available here.
Contribution
Users are welcome to suggest and implement features for the code, as well as report bugs or numerical issues they encounter. Please feel free to open an issue on this repository describing your desired change or bug-fix. Pull requests are also welcome!