Kinetic theory of transport processes in partially ionized reactive plasma, I: General transport equations

V.M. Zhdanov and A.A. Stepanenko

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 446, issue C, 35-53

Abstract: In this paper we derive the set of general transport equations for multicomponent partially ionized reactive plasma in the presence of electric and magnetic fields taking into account the internal degrees of freedom and electronic excitation of plasma particles. Our starting point is a generalized Boltzmann equation with the collision integral in the Wang-Chang and Uhlenbeck form and a reactive collision integral. We obtain a set of conservation equations for such plasma and employ a linearized variant of Grad’s moment method to derive the system of moment (or transport) equations for the plasma species nonequilibrium parameters. Full and reduced transport equations, resulting from the linearized system of moment equations, are presented, which can be used to obtain transport relations and expressions for transport coefficients of electrons and heavy plasma particles (molecules, atoms and ions) in partially ionized reactive plasma.

Keywords: Transport processes; Partially ionized plasma; Reactive plasma; Transport equations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.11.012

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