Plasma transport coefficients in a magnetic field by direct numerical solution of the Fokker–Planck equation

DOI10.1063/1.865901zbMath0615.76120OpenAlexW1987460098MaRDI QIDQ4724359

E. M. Epperlein, M. G. Haines

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865901

zbMATH Keywords

fully ionized plasmanumerical solutiondistribution functionheat fluxlinearized Fokker-Planck equationelectron currentCartesian tensor expansionstandard transport coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• VALUES OF THE TRANSPORT COEFFICIENTS IN A PLASMA FOR ANY DEGREE OF IONIZATION BASED ON A MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION
• CARTESIAN TENSOR EXPANSION OF THE FOKKER–PLANCK EQUATION
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