A new approach to some nonlinear fluid dynamics problems

The fluid equations for two-dimensional electron-ion turbulence in the collision dominated regime are reformulated in terms of potentials. External magnetic and gravitational fields are included as well as electron-ion collisions and collisions with neutrals. The utility of the technique in connection with some ionospheric turbulence problems is briefly discussed.     

Fundamentals of electron-ion interaction

A brief review on the physics of electron-ion collisions is given. After an introduction focussing on the applied importance of electron-ion interactions a discussion of experimental techniques based on colliding beams of electrons and ions follows. The main part deals with the different types of electron-ion collision processes. An overview is provided on (1) electronimpact ionization of ions, (2) electron scattering from ions, (3) electron-impact excitation of ions, and (4) recombination of ions with free electrons.     

Electrical Conductivity of Non-ideal Plasmas and the Ion Distribution Function

The theory of electrical conductivity of electron-ion-systems is developed for a density region which reaches from the region of non-ideal plasmas up to the region of liquid metals. The conductivity is expressed by quantum mechanical correlation functions. Different forms of the electron-ion pseudopotentials are considered. The ion distribution function is derived using the mean spherical approximation (MSA) theory or the nonlinear Debye-theory. Higher order scattering effects are treated by introducing scattering phase shifts for the statically screened electron-ion potential. The numerical results for the conductivity show a SPITZER-like behaviour in the low-density non-degenerate limit where higher order scattering is important, and a ZIMAN-like behaviour in the strongly degenerate high-density limit where the ion distribution functions and the form of the electron-ion pseudopotential become more important.     

Unitarity constraints for deep-inelastic scattering on nuclei: Predictions for electron-ion colliders

Future electron-ion colliders will focus on the unitarity properties of deep inelastic scattering in the limit of strong nuclear absorption. Strong nuclear shadowing and a large abundance of coherent diffraction are the most striking consequences of unitarity. Quantitative predictions for these effects in the kinematical range of the planned electron-ion colliders are reported. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Effect of electron-ion collision on the ion-acoustic solitary wave in a relativistic plasma

Summary We have considered the effect of electron-ion collision on the structure of the solitary wave in a relativistic unmagnetized plasma. In the present analysis we have considered ions to be cold, the electrons hot. The equation obtained for ion velocity is not the usual KdV type but a perturbed version of it, where the perturbing term is proportional to the electron-ion collision frequency. Lastly we have used the method of Bogoliubov-Mitropolsky to study the change in the solitary-wave profile due to this perturbation.     

Simulation and experiment on detached plasmas in the linear divertor simulator NAGDIS-II

We have performed two dimensional fluid B2 simulations on detached recombining plasmas to compare with experimental observations in a linear divertor plasma simulator. In detached helium plasmas associated with volumetric electron-ion recombination (collisional radiative recombination), an electron-ion energy exchange process followed by ion-neutral charge exchange is found to be a key to reduce the electron temperature along the magnetic field to be less than leV. The structural change of detached plasmas associated with molecular activated recombination has been also discussed in detail.     

电子-离子碰撞对超热电子影响的PIC模拟计算

超热电子-离子的产生和输运在传统的ICF方案和“快点火”方案中都是很重要的问题.讨论了电子-离子碰撞对参量不稳定性产生超热电子的过程和超热电子输运过程的影响.指出电子-离子弱碰撞项的加入增强了碰撞吸收,提高了热电子温度,降低了静电波破裂时的场能.这些改变了超热电子的总能量和分布,使之更集中于静电波的相速;电子-离子碰撞的存在还增强了自洽电场,阻碍了超热电子的输运,同样也是超热电子能量下降的原因之一.同时,为确保计算结果的可靠,讨论了初条件对PIC模拟计算的影响,指出空间位置随机热启动容易引入非物理因素,对 关键词：     

Current-Driven Kink-Like Instability in Collisional Plasmas

The stability of left-hand circularly polarized waves propagating along an external magnetic field with wavelengths much larger than the ion Larmor radius is studied for fully-ionized collisional plasmas carrying a field-aligned current. It is found that, in the presence of electron-ion collisions, this "kink-like" instability has two branches of unstable wavenumbers: a main branch and a resistive branch. The resistive branch owes its existence to electron-ion collisions, but its growth rate is much smaller than that of the main branch, which is typically some fraction of the ion cyclotron frequency. The effect of collisions on the main branch is to reduce its maximum growth rate while extending the range of unstable wavenumbers to larger values. However, these changes are significant only when the electron-ion collision frequency is comparable to the electron cyclotron frequency. The dispersion relation is solved numerically for plasma and magnetic field parameters appropriate to the UCLA arcjet plasma. The results show that, within the framework of an infinite and homogeneous theory, the kink-like instability should occur in this plasma device.     

Quantum ion acoustic solitary waves in electron-ion plasmas: A Sagdeev potential approach

Linear and nonlinear ion acoustic waves are studied in unmagnetized electron-ion quantum plasmas. Sagdeev potential approach is employed to describe the nonlinear quantum ion acoustic waves. It is found that density dips structures are formed in the subsonic region in a electron-ion quantum plasma case. The amplitude of the nonlinear structures remains constant and the width is broadened with the increase in the quantization of the system. However, the nonlinear wave amplitude is reduced with the increase in the wave Mach number. The numerical results are also presented.     

Optical conductivity of a hydrogen plasma: weak localization effects

To what extent can collective electron-ion interaction effects influence the electric conductivity of a Coulomb system? This paper is aimed to answer this question for the case of the solid density hydrogen plasma. The thermodynamic Green's function approach is combined with the generalized hydrodynamic theory to develop a self-consistent approximation for the dynamic (frequency dependent) electron-ion collision frequency. On this basis the electric conductivity, skin depth and reflectivity of a dense hydrogen plasma are evaluated at frequencies below the plasma frequency. The results indicate that the percolation metal-insulator transition becomes possible at low plasma densities.     

Particle energization in an expanding magnetized relativistic plasma

Using a 21 / 2-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) code to simulate the relativistic expansion of a magnetized collisionless plasma into a vacuum, we report a new mechanism in which the magnetic energy is efficiently converted into the directed kinetic energy of a small fraction of surface particles. We study this mechanism for both electron-positron and electron-ion (m(i)/m(e)=100, m(e) is the electron rest mass) plasmas. For the electron-positron case, the pairs can be accelerated to ultrarelativistic energies. For electron-ion plasmas, most of the energy gain goes to the ions.     

固态氩弹性性质的量子力学从头计算

本文从量子力学第一性原理出发,用平面波赝势 (PWP)结合广义梯度近似(GGA)密度泛函理论方法,计算了零温下固态氩晶体0～82 GPa压力范围内的弹性性质,体系电子-离子相互作用采用硬赝势描述.计算结果与静高压实验数据良好相符,通过计算表明采取合理的方法和计算参数,惰性气体固态晶体高压下的力学性质可以比较准确地计算出来,这可为实验上难于进行研究的物质提供有意义的参考.     

Resistive Electrostatic Ion Cyclotron Instability in Plasmas

The stability of electrostatic ion cyclotron waves propagating obliquely with respect to the background magnetic field is studied for collisional, fully-ionized plasmas in which there is a relative field-aligned streaming between electrons and ions. It is found that electron-ion collisions, in conjunction with electron streaming, provides a mechanism for instability. The role of electron streaming is to supply a source of free energy and the role of electron-ion collisions is to restrict the field-aligned mobility of the electrons, thus preventing them from establishing a Boltzmann equilibrium. Ion-ion collisions and finite ion Larmor radius are found to exert a stabilizing influence. The instability is analyzed for both current-carrying plasmas and counterstreaming-beam-plasma systems.     

Stationary state of an electron-ion ring

The stationary state of an electron-ion ring is investigated on the basis of the kinetic equation. The trajectories of the particles are found for given distributions of the charges on the assumption that the cross-sectional dimensions of the beam are much smaller than its radius. An analysis of the results shows that the formation of an electron-ion ring is characterized by the appearance of a stationary state in which the charge components of the ring are displaced relative to each other, the displacement decreasing the further the beam is away from the walls of the chamber and vanishing for complete charge neutralization.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 29–35, November, 1979.     

Corrections to the Landau diamagnetism of liquid metals

Perturbation corrections to the free electron value of the Landau susceptibility have been obtained in terms of an electron-ion pseudopotential and the structure factor of the liquid metal.     

Pseudoclassical approach to electron and ion density correlations in simple liquid metals

Il Nuovo Cimento D - Electron-electron and electron-ion structural correlations in simple liquid metals are treated by using effective pair potentials to incorporate quantal effects into a...     

Relations between structure factors in liquid metals

Relations between the electron-electron, electron-ion and ion-ion structure factors in metals for the arbitrary wave vector are obtained in the adiabatic approximation, assuming weak coupling between the electron and ion components.     

Effects of magnetic field and temperature on the nonrelativistic bremsstrahlung process in magnetized anisotropic plasmas

The magnetic field and thermal effects on the nonrelativistic electron-ion bremsstrahlung process are investigated in magnetized anisotropic plasmas. The effective electron-ion interaction potential is obtained in the presence of an external magnetic field. Using the Born approximation for the initial and final states of the projectile electron, the bremsstrahlung radiation cross section and bremsstrahlung emission rate are obtained as functions of the electron energy, radiation photon energy, magnetic field strength, plasma temperature, and Debye length. It is shown that the effects of the magnetic field enhance the bremsstrahlung radiation cross section for low plasma temperatures and, however, suppress the bremsstrahlung cross section for high plasma temperatures. It is also shown that the magnetic field effects diminish the bremsstrahlung emission rate in magnetized high temperature plasmas.     

A fitting formula for electron–ion energy partition fraction of 3.54-MeV fusion alpha particles in hot dense deuterium–tritium plasmas

Based on our previous work(Phys.Plasmas 25 012704(2018)),a fitting formula is given for electron-ion energy partition fraction of 3.54-MeV fusion alpha particles in deuterium-tritium(DT) plasmas as a function of plasma mass density ρ,electron temperature T_e,and ion temperature T_i.The formula can be used in a huge range of the plasma state,where ρ varies between 1.0 g/cc~10.0³ g/cc and both T_e and T_i change from 0.1 keV to 100.0 keV.Relativistic effect for electrons is investigated including the effect of the projectile recoil in the plasmas at T_e≥ 50.0 keV.The partition fraction for T_e>T_i is found to be close to that for T_e=T_i. The comparisons with other fitting results are made at some plasma densities when T_e=T_i,and the difference is explained.The fitting result is very close to the calculated one in most cases,which is convenient for the simulation of alpha heating in hot dense DT plasmas for inertial confined fusion.