Unified Equation of State for Weakly-and Strongly-Coupled Laboratory Plasmas.
Abstract
An argument is presented which permits a laboratory plasma of arbitrary ionization to be viewed as a one component plasma. In this equivalence, an effective ion charge number, dependent on temperature and ion number density, is used to obtain a generalized plasma parameter, in turn, dependent on temperature and ion number density. Employing this generalized plasma parameter in previously obtained expressions for internal energy yields a unified equation of state over the range of consideration. A numerical plot of this equation as a function of temperature reflects the shell structure of atoms in the plasma. Keywords: Railgun; Plasma; Pressure; Temperature; Equation of state; Thermodynamic; Internal energy; Recombination; Electrons.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA172542
Entities
People
- G. K. Schenter
- G. L. Ferrentino
- R. L. Liboff
Organizations
- Battelle Memorial Institute