Plasma Expansion in Vacuum: Modeling the Breakdown of Quasi Neutrality

DOI10.1137/030600333zbMath1068.82021OpenAlexW2045595490MaRDI QIDQ4656054

Pierre Degond, Marie-Hélène Vignal, Céline Parzani

Publication date: 8 March 2005

Published in: Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/030600333

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-neutral limitChild-Langmuir lawEuler-Poisson modelBohm sheath criterionexpanding plasmatravelling-wave analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Boundary-layer theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N20)

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