AN EXACT CALCULATION OF MOMENTUM AND ENERGY EXCHANGE COLLISION INTEGRALS OVER DISPLACED MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS.
Abstract
The report contains the details of the exact evaluation of the momentum and energy exchange collision integrals for particles interacting through a potential which depends upon some arbitrary power of the interparticle distance and for displaced Maxwellian distribution functions possessing different temperatures and mean velocities. A discussion of the applicability of the calculation in the framework of the solution of the Boltzmann equation is presented and the results are applied to electron conduction in the presence of strong electric fields with emphasis on electron run-away. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0607333
Entities
People
- John M. Smith
Organizations
- General Electric