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- Covers the main aspects of plasma transport property calculations as well as new developments in the theoretical formulation
- Presents the second volume in a set of three, which focuses on the application of the Chapman-Enskog method in deriving the transport properties of plasmas in the presence of excited states and magnetic fields
- Allows researchers and graduate students to construct a personal road in the understanding of topics relevant to the field
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 74)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Transport develops basic and advanced concepts of plasma transport to the modern treatment of the Chapman-Enskog method for the solution of the Boltzmann transport equation.
The book invites the reader to consider actual problems of the transport of thermal plasmas with particular attention to the derivation of diffusion- and viscosity-type transport cross sections, stressing the role of resonant charge-exchange processes in affecting the diffusion-type collision calculation of viscosity-type collision integrals.
A wide range of topics is then discussed including (1) the effect of non-equilibrium vibrational distributions on the transport of vibrational energy, (2) the role of electronically excited states in the transport properties of thermal plasmas, (3) the dependence of transport properties on the multitude of Saha equations for multi-temperature plasmas, and (4) the effect of the magnetic field on transport properties.
Throughout the book, worked examples are provided to clarify concepts and mathematical approaches.
This book is the second of a series of three published by the Bari group on fundamental aspects of plasma chemical physics. The first book, Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Thermodynamics, is dedicated to plasma thermodynamics; and the third, Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Kinetics, deals with plasma kinetics.
Keywords
- Boltzmann Equation
- Chapman-Enskog method
- asymptotic approach
- charge-exchange cross sections
- collision integrals
- convergence problems
- electronically excited states
- excitation-exchange cross sections
- model interaction potentials
- multi-potential approach
- multi-temperature plasmas
- phenomenological approach
- tranport theory
- transport properties of planetary atmospheres
- vibrationally excited states
Authors and Affiliations
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, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy
Mario Capitelli
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari, Italy
Domenico Bruno, Annarita Laricchiuta
About the authors
Mario Capitelli, University of Bari, mario.capitelli@ba.imip.cnr.it
Domenico Bruno, IMIP CNR
Annarita Laricchiuta, IMIP CNR
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics
Book Subtitle: Transport
Authors: Mario Capitelli, Domenico Bruno, Annarita Laricchiuta
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8172-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8171-4Published: 03 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9586-5Published: 21 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8172-1Published: 02 April 2013
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 352
Topics: Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry, Complex Systems, Thermodynamics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems