Diffusion with varying drag: The runaway problem. I

DOI10.1063/1.865902zbMath0599.76057OpenAlexW4230712472MaRDI QIDQ3735297

Noel Corngold, David K. Rollins

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865902

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionssaddle-point methodhigher transcendental functionslinearized Fokker-Planck equationdiffusing particlesDiffusive phenomenatime-dependent diffusion in velocity space of one dimensionuniform external electric fieldvelocity-dependent diffusion coefficient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Diffusion and convection (76R99) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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