THE GOVERNING MACROSCOPIC EQUATIONS OF PARTIALLY IONIZED GASES

Abstract

Useful formulations of the macroscopic conservation relations for a three-component mixture composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles are developed from the basic forms of the equations for the individual species. The development represents primarily an orderly compilation of the work of previous investigators, although the equations developed are somewhat more general than those previously derived. In particular, all inertial and viscous terms are retained, and the temperatures of the individual species are not required to be equal. In addition, treatment of the energy equations is included.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 25, 1962
Accession Number
AD0296525

Entities

People

  • D. M. Dix

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Charged Particles
  • Continuity
  • Diffusion
  • Distribution Functions
  • Electrons
  • Enthalpy
  • Equations
  • Equations Of State
  • Friction
  • Lepidoptera
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Momentum
  • Nomenclature
  • Standards
  • Two Dimensional

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