Crossed contributions to electron and heavy-particle transport fluxes for magnetized plasmas in the continuum regime

We propose a unified fluid model for multicomponent plasmas in thermal nonequilibrium accounting for the influence of the electromagnetic field. In a previous work, this model was derived from kinetic theory based on a generalized Chapman-Enskog perturbative solution of the Boltzmann equation, scale...

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Main Authors: Scoggins, James B., Knisely, Carleton P., Magin, Thierry E.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Asymptotic methods
Basis functions
Boltzmann transport equation
Electromagnetic fields
Electrons
Fluxes
Galerkin method
Kinetic theory
Particle mass
Plasmas
Transport properties
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Summary:We propose a unified fluid model for multicomponent plasmas in thermal nonequilibrium accounting for the influence of the electromagnetic field. In a previous work, this model was derived from kinetic theory based on a generalized Chapman-Enskog perturbative solution of the Boltzmann equation, scaled using the ratio of electron to heavy-particle masses. Anisotropic transport properties were derived in terms of bracket integrals. In this work, explicit expressions for asymptotic solutions of the transport properties are derived using a spectral Galerkin projection supplied with Laguerre-Sonine polynomial basis functions, and we analyze the crossed contributions to electron and heavy particle mass and energy fluxes, known as the Kolesnikov effect.
ISSN:0094-243X
1551-7616
DOI:10.1063/1.4967628