Simple relations for electron temperature and potential in dilute cold plasma flows
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Abstract
© 2018 Author(s). This short note presents concise semi-analytical expressions for electron temperature and potential in unsteady dilute cold plasma flows. The analysis is based on the detailed fluid model for electrons. Ionizations and normalized electron number density gradients are neglected, and the transport properties are assumed as local constants. Flow is unsteady and Maxwell's equations are adopted in the analysis. With these treatments, the partial differential equations for unsteady electron temperature and potential degenerate as ordinary differential equations. Along an electron streamline, two simple formulas for unsteady electron temperature and plasma potential are obtained. These formulas offer some insights, for example, the electron temperature and plasma potential distributions along an electron streamline include two exponential functions: one for spatial distance along a streamline and the other for time.
Publication Title
Physics of Plasmas
Recommended Citation
Zhang, K.,
Cai, C.,
&
Cooke, D.
(2018).
Simple relations for electron temperature and potential in dilute cold plasma flows.
Physics of Plasmas,
25(1).
http://doi.org/10.1063/1.5010768
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