Macroscopic behaviour of a charged Boltzmann gas

L. Bányai, P. Gartner and V. Protopopescu

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1981, vol. 107, issue 1, 166-178

Abstract: We consider a classical charged gas (with self-consistent Coulomb interaction) described by a solvable linearized Boltzmann equation with thermalization on uniformly distributed scatterers. It is shown that if one scales the time t, the reciprocal space coordinate k and the Debye length l as λ2t, (1/λ)k, λl, respectively, in the λ → ∞ limit the charge density is equal to the solution of the corresponding diffusion-conduction (macroscopic) equation.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(81)90030-3

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