Three-temperature theory of gaseous ion transport |
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Authors: | S.L. Lin L.A. Viehland E.A. Mason |
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Affiliation: | Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA |
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Abstract: | A three-temperature kinetic theory of gaseous ion transport through neutral atomic gases, valid for electric fields of arbitrary strength without restriction on the ion—atom mass ratio or interaction potential, is presented. The theory is based on the use of a set of basis functions in which the ions are allowed to have different temperatures parallel and perpendicular to the field, neither of which is necessarily equal to the gas temperature, and for which the ion velocity distribution function is displaced from the origin. Although the theory is more difficult to use than is the two-temperature theory of Viehland and Mason and of Burnett, it has the important advantage of yielding accurate results in low orders of approximation to quantities that are intrinsically anisotropic, notably ion diffusion coefficients. |
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