Accession Number:

AD0641429

Title:

CONVERGENT TRANSPORT COEFFICIENTS OF PLASMA.

Descriptive Note:

Research paper,

Corporate Author:

INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ARLINGTON VA RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT DIV

Personal Author(s):

• Hochstim,Adolf R.

Report Date:

1966-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

117.0

Abstract:

Applying a series expansion of Laguerre polynomials in the solution of the plasma kinetic equation, in which Coulomb collisons are described by Fokker-Planck collision term and electron-neutral collisions by the Boltzmann collision term, elements of a 20 x 20 determinant compared to 3 x 3 obtained by Landhoff and 4 x4 by Shkarofsky were obtained for equilibrium plasma for the electron-electron and electron-ion contributions. At present convergence studies on dc and ac electric conductivity indicate slow convergence with increasing size of the determinant and, as a surprising feature, an oscillating solution as a function of the size of the determinant.

Descriptors:

• (*PLASMAS(PHYSICS)
• *TRANSPORT PROPERTIES)
• KINETIC THEORY
• SERIES(MATHEMATICS)
• POLYNOMIALS
• IONIZATION
• ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY
• DETERMINANTS(MATHEMATICS)

Subject Categories:

• Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE