Transport coefficients for drifting Maxwellian plasmas: The effect of Coulomb collisions
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2018-01-05
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Jubeh, Walaa’ Najeeb
Barghouthi, Imad Ahmad
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American Institute of Physics
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We derive the collisional momentum and energy transport coefficients in Maxwellian plasmas with a general drift velocity with respect to the ambient magnetic field by using two approaches, the Fokker-Planck approximation and Boltzmann collision integral. We find the transport coefficients obtained from Fokker-Planck representation are similar to those obtained by using Boltzmann collision integral approach, and both results are presented in a closed form in terms of hypergeometric functions. This has been done for drifting Maxwellian plasmas with special emphasis on Coulomb collision, i.e. inverse-square force. Also, we calculate the transport coefficients for two special cases, firstly, when the drift velocity is parallel to the ambient magnetic field (i.e. u = u∥, and zero perpendicular drift velocity), and secondly, when the drift velocity is perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field (i.e. u = u⊥, and zero parallel drift velocity). It is worthy to mention that, up to our knowledge, none of the derived transport coefficients for the above mentioned case are presented in closed form and in terms of hypergeometric function.
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TY - JOUR AU - Aljubeh, wal'a AU - Barghouthi, Imad PY - 2018/01/05 SP - 015105 T1 - Transport coefficients for drifting Maxwellian plasmas: The effect of Coulomb collisions VL - 8 DO - 10.1063/1.5018318 JO - AIP Advances ER -