Temperature screening and cross-field impurity accumulation from a thermodynamic perspective

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2022.128298zbMATH Open1505.82054arXiv2205.14178OpenAlexW4281736241MaRDI QIDQ2166497FDOQ2166497

Authors: E. J. Kolmes, I. E. Ochs, M. E. Mlodik, N. J. Fisch 

Publication date: 24 August 2022

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a variety of different systems, high-Z ion species show a marked tendency to accumulate in regions of high plasma density. It has previously been suggested that the apparent universality of this behavior could be explained thermodynamically, in terms of the maximum-entropy state attainable when the system must obey an ambipolarity condition. However, the previous treatment did not allow for the possibility of temperature gradients. Here, tools from non-equilibrium (Onsager) thermodynamics are used to show that ambipolarity continues to play a key role in producing this behavior in the presence of temperature gradients, and to recover well-known temperature screening effects that appear in these cases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14178

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zbMATH Keywords

non-equilibrium thermodynamicsimpurity transportdifferential transportimpurity pinchplasma thermodynamicstemperature screening

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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