等离子体鞘层中尘埃粒子的分布特性

采用柱槽状电极的流体模型，数值模拟了等离子体鞘层及鞘层中尘埃粒子的分布结构. 研究了尘埃粒子数、粒子大小、电极尺寸等因素对尘埃分布结构的影响. 研究表明：当等离子体密度较高时，鞘层较薄，反之鞘层较厚；当尘埃粒子数少时，尘埃分布形成一层结构，反之则形成多层结构；随电极尺寸的不同，尘埃粒子形成一些复杂而又有趣的结构. 关键词： 尘埃粒子 等离子体鞘层 电极     

尘埃颗粒与等离子体鞘层相互作用的数值模拟

通过求解一维稳态的尘埃等离子体鞘层模型,得到了等离子体鞘层势、正离子密度、电子密度和尘埃颗粒密度随一维横向的分布,Bohm判据及鞘层边界无量纲Bohm速度随尘埃密度的变化曲线,尘埃颗粒的带电量和尘埃密度的关系,尘埃颗粒的温度对尘埃颗粒自身在鞘层中分布的影响。结果表明,随着尘埃密度的增加,鞘层的厚度在减小,鞘层内的电子密度在下降,而且尘埃颗粒的带电量也在逐渐减少;随着尘埃温度的增加,鞘层的厚度减小,电子密度下降,而且鞘层附近的尘埃颗粒在逐渐增多。     

等离子体鞘层附近尘埃颗粒特性的数值模拟

为了研究尘埃等离子体中尘埃颗粒以及鞘层中粒子密度分布等特性,对尘埃颗粒存在条件下等离子体鞘层结构的采取数值模拟.采用稳态无碰撞的尘埃等离子体鞘层模型,对玻姆判据、尘埃颗粒的荷电性质、平板鞘层区域的电势分布及鞘层内粒子分布特性进行了系统的数值模拟研究.计算结果显示,鞘层边缘尘埃颗粒数密度的增加、尘埃温度的升高,将引起孤立尘埃颗粒对电子吸附能力的减弱,集体效应也受到一定程度的影响;二者同时对离子玻姆速度以及鞘层厚度的增加都有着极大的促进作用.鞘层电势在靠近下极区处降落迅速,主要聚集在接近阴极极板的鞘层区域,各种微粒数密度的空间分布满足准中性条件.     

两种带电尘埃颗粒的等离子体鞘层玻姆判据

采用流体方程和尘埃充电自洽模型研究了鞘边含有两种尘埃颗粒的等离子体玻姆判据. 通过拟牛顿法数值模拟了鞘边两种尘埃颗粒的存在对尘埃自身充电以及离子马赫数的影响. 两种尘埃颗粒中含量较少的尘埃颗粒数密度的增加, 导致两种尘埃颗粒表面悬浮势一个降低, 一个升高. 含量较少的尘埃颗粒的数密度越多和半径越小, 都会导致离子马赫数增大. 另外鞘边无论何种尘埃颗粒的速度增加, 鞘边离子马赫数都将减小. 关键词： 等离子体鞘层 尘埃颗粒 玻姆判据     

Evolution of a dust void in a radio-frequency plasma sheath

The onset and growth of a dust void are investigated in a radio-frequency (rf) sheath of a capacitively coupled argon plasma. A circularly symmetric void emerges and grows with increasing rf power and pressure in the central region of the dust cloud levitating in the sheath. Experimental measurements of the void diameter are compared with the predictions of a simple phenomenological theory, based on a balance of forces on dust grains.     

Parabolic plasma sheath potentials and their implications for the charge on levitated dust particles

Analysis of several numerical plasma sheath models, as well as data from several previously reported experiments, is shown to indicate that the sheath potential function may often be very closely approximated with a parabola. We also demonstrate that once this potential function is suitably determined the charge on isolated dust particles levitated in the plasma sheath may be calculated directly from their equilibrium heights.     

Potential around a dust grain placed in the plasma sheath

We present a theory for potential distributions around a charged dust grain in a plasma with flowing ions. For this purpose, we account for absorption of ions by the grain surface and derive a kinetic ion density response for ion flow speed lying between the electron and ion thermal speeds. Poisson's equation is then solved to obtain the potential distribution close and far from the dust grain. It is found that at distances smaller than half the Debye radius, the potential remains spherically symmetric, while at large distances the potential becomes assymetric.     

碰撞对尘埃等离子体鞘层中尘埃颗粒影响

在一维平板鞘层中应用流体模型研究了尘埃等离子体鞘层中碰撞对尘埃颗粒密度和带电量的影响。 研究所涉及的碰撞主要有电离碰撞,电子、离子分别与中性粒子的碰撞,以及电子、离子分别与尘埃颗粒的碰撞。通过采用四阶龙格库塔法,得到了数值解。结果表明,随着电离碰撞或者电子、离子分别与中性粒子碰撞的频率 增加,都将导致鞘层中尘埃颗粒的数密度增大,数密度的极值位置向鞘边位置靠近,尘埃颗粒带电量增多。电子、离子与尘埃颗粒的碰撞,使得尘埃带电量减小。此外,从研究的结果来看,由离子产生的碰撞要比电子产生的碰 撞对尘埃颗粒的影响明显得多。     

Parametric instability of dust lattice waves in a turbulent plasma sheath

It is shown that dust lattice waves (DLWs) become parametrically unstable in a turbulent dusty plasma sheath that contains random-phase ion plasma waves. Physically, the parametric instability arises because of the nonlinear coupling between ion plasma waves and DLWs. The parametric instability is identified as the possible reason for the observed "sublimation" transition of the plasma crystal from a solid to a gaslike state.     

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The fluid dynamics model was used to study the influence of the existence of the collisions on the dust particles in a dusty plasma sheath. The main collisions in this study consist of the ionization collision, the collision between electron and neutral particle, the collision between ion and neutral particle, the collision between electron and dust particle, the collision between ion and dust particle. Numerical calculation results are obtained by the fourth-order-Rung-Kutta method. It is shown that both the dust particles’ density and corresponding electricity quantity increase as the following collisions’ frequency enhances, such as ionization collision, the collision between electron and neutral particle, the collision between ion and neutral particle. The charge reduces due to the collisions concluding electron-dust particle and ion-dust particle. In addition, the effect produced by ions’ collision is much more obviously compared with electrons’ collision.     

Ultrahigh charging of dust particles in a nonequilibrium plasma

Charging of dust particles in a plasma with the two-temperature energy distribution of electrons has been studied. It has been shown that the dust-particle potential divided by the electron temperature decreases with increasing electron temperature in the plasma with cold ions. Owing to this behavior, the potential of the dustparticle surface increases with the electron temperature more slowly than the linear function and is lower than the electron temperature (divided by the elementary charge) for T _e > 5.5 eV in hydrogen and for T _e > 240 eV in argon. The fraction of fast electrons at which these electrons begin to contribute to the charge of dust particles has been determined. It has been shown that the charge of micron particles can reach 10⁶ elementary charges. The effect of the cold and thermal field emission on the charge of dust particles has been analyzed. The possibility of obtaining ultrahigh charges (to 10⁷ elementary charges on dust particles with a radius of 50–100 μm irradiated by a 25-keV 1-mA electron beam has been demonstrated.     

Energy deposition of fast α particles in a fully ionized deuterium-tritium plasma

An α particle transport equation has been solved analytically in one-dimensional spherical geometry when the plasma properties are uniform in space and time. The results agree well with earlier results.     

Dust charging and levitating in a sheath of plasma containing energetic particles

The structure of the sheath in the presence of energetic particles is investigated in the multi-fluid framework. Based on the orbital motion limited(OML) theory, the dust grain charging inside the sheath of plasma containing energetic particles is examined for the carbon wall, and then the effect of the energetic particles on the stationary dust particle inside the sheath is discussed through the trapping potential energy. It is found that with the increase of energetic ion concentration or energy,the size of dust staying in levitation equilibrium decreases and the levitating position is much closer to the wall. In the case of deuterium ions as energetic ions, the bigger dust particle can be trapped by the sheath than in the case of hydrogen ions as energetic ions. When the energetic electron component is present, the levitating position of dust particle in the sheath depends strongly on the energetic electron. The levitating dust particle is closer to the wall as the energetic electron energy or concentration is increased. In addition, with the increase of temperature of thermal background ion, the size of dust particle trapped by the sheath decreases and the levitating positions of dust particles with the same size radius inside the sheath move toward the wall. Our results can be helpful in investigating the property of the sheath where the energetic particle component is present.     

Behaviour of a dust cloud in the plasma sheath adjacent to a conducting wall

The location of a dust cloud under the combined influence of the sheath electric and gravity forces is studied. It is found that a charged dust cloud, which is located at a distance of several electron Debye radius from the wall, greatly affects the potential profile of the sheath electric field and of the potential well. The present theoretical results are in good agreement with experimental observations.     

Anomalous heating of a system of dust particles in a gas-discharge plasma

The coexistence of regions of negatively charged macroparticles with substantially different kinetic temperatures in a highly nonideal dusty plasma in a dc glow discharge has been observed experimentally. An explanation of the observed anomalous heating of the system of dust particles in a gas-discharge plasma is proposed on the basis of a molecular-dynamics model. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 66, No. 6, 392–397 (25 September 1997)     

Propagation of waves in a multicomponent plasma having charged dust particles

Propagation of both low and high frequency waves in a plasma consisting of electrons, ions, positrons and charged dust particles have been theoretically studied. The characteristics of dust acoustic wave propagating through the plasma has been analysed and the dispersion relation deduced is a generalization of that obtained by previous authors. It is found that nonlinear localization of high frequency electromagnetic field in such a plasma generates magnetic field. This magnetic field is seen to depend on the temperatures of electrons and positrons and also on their equilibrium density ratio. It is suggested that the present model would be applicable to find the magnetic field generation in space plasma.     

Simulation of the dynamics of strongly interacting macroparticles in a weakly ionized plasma

The method of molecular dynamics is used to study the dynamic behavior of a nonideal system of particles interacting through screened Coulomb potential. The behavior of the self-diffusion coefficient of particles as a function of the nonideality parameter is investigated. The conditions of the crystallization of such a system are discussed, as well as the possibility of using the crystallization criterion, based on the dynamic characteristics of the system.