Kinetic Simulation of Segmented Plasma Flow Meter Response in the Ionospheric Plasma

A relatively simple design of a segmented flow meter is presented for measuring in situ plasma velocities and other space parameters. The response the to environment simulated conditions representative ionosphere at mid low latitudes using Particle cell code. synthetic data set consisting ion currents collected by several segments meter, physical parameters which they were calculated, then used construct solution library from inference models can be constructed, radial basis function neural network regressions. Simulation results show that with such it should possible infer direction perpendicular ram direction, uncertainties ±45 m/s or less. Models also constructed densities, maximum relative error 23%. This work as first assessment proof concept an original robust meter.