Abstract: | After a review of more or less systematic approaches for normal as well as anomalous particle transport phenomena across a magnetic field, simplified macroscopic models are discussed. A reduced two-field model for collision-dominated low-temperature plasmas is presented. Although it looks similar to its high-temperature analogue (known as the Hasegawa-Wakatani equations), it has significant peculiarities which are discussed in detail. Some basic results following from the reduced two-field model, e.g. anomalous transport scaling close to the onset of collisional driftwave instability, are discussed. |