Human Capsule

This tutorial will guide the user through an advanced workflow used to simulate the surface charging along behavior and internal charging behavior of the vacuum for a satellite, biased with a velocity, exposed to a LEO plasma environment. As the craft travels through the plasma, the ions will form a “wake” wherein there is a decrease in the density of the ions in the path behind the spacecraft. This tutorial will instruct the user on how to create custom LEO plasma for a surface charging FEM simulation and visualize both surface charging data on the spacecraft and 3D field and particle data in the vacuum.

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