Kinetic theory of the plasma sheath transition in a weakly ionized plasma

DOI10.1063/1.863332zbMath0476.76112OpenAlexW1988813431MaRDI QIDQ3932530

K.-U. Riemann

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863332

zbMATH Keywords

kinetic theoryweakly ionizedBoltzmann distributed electronscollision-dominated counterpart to Tonks-Langmuir modelnegative absorbing wallplasma sheath transitionself-consistent two-scale analysissingly charged atomic ions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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