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The collapse of the local, spitzer-haerm formulation and a global-local generalization for heat flow in an inhomogeneous, fully ionized plasma
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Olbert, S. Scudder, J. D. |
| Copyright Year | 1983 |
| Description | The breakdown of the classical (CBES) field aligned transport relations for electrons in an inhomogeneous, fully ionized plasma as a mathematical issue of radius of convergence is addressed, the finite Knudsen number conditions when CBES results are accurate is presented and a global-local (GL) way to describe the results of Coulomb physics moderated conduction that is more nearly appropriate for astrophysical plasmas are defined. This paper shows the relationship to and points of departure of the present work from the CBES approach. The CBES heat law in current use is shown to be an especially restrictive special case of the new, more general GL result. A preliminary evaluation of the dimensionless heat function, using analytic formulas, shows that the dimensionless heat function profiles versus density of the type necessary for a conduction supported high speed solar wind appear possible. |
| File Size | 998039 |
| Page Count | 19 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19840005012 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t08w87v87 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1983-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Solar Physics Coulomb Collisions Knudsen Flow Maclaurin Series Plasmas Physics Chapman-enskog Theory Differential Equations Electron Mobility Velocity Distribution Solar Wind Heat Flux Distribution Functions Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
