THE EFFECT OF CLOSE COLLISIONS ON THE TWO-BODY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION IN A PLASMA

Abstract

The development of a two-body distribution function in a plasma for use in a kinetic equation for the one-body distribution function is investigated. The kinetic equation is obtained for a uniform plasma for those circumstances in which the time dependence of higher-order distribution functions can be assumed to occur within a functional dependence on the one- particle distribution function. The conditions of validity for this functional-dependence assumption are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 31, 1962
Accession Number
AD0296211

Entities

People

  • David Ellis Baldwin

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boundaries
  • Charged Particles
  • Collisions
  • Distribution Functions
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Fokker Planck Equations
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Liouville Equation
  • Momentum
  • Potential Energy
  • Time Dependence
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics
  • Physics

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics