2016/11/29 by Grigory Kagan, Kagan, Grigory, Scott Baalrud +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.09872
openalex publication_date 2016/11/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The recently proposed effective potential theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 235001 (2013)] allows evaluating transport in coupled plasmas with the well-developed formalisms for systems with binary collisions. To facilitate practical implementation of this concept in fluid models of multi-component plasmas, compact expressions for the transport coefficients in terms the generalized Coulomb logarithms are summarized from existing prescriptions. For weakly coupled plasmas, characterized by Debye-shielded Coulomb interaction potential, expressions become fully analytical. In coupled plasmas the generalized Coulomb logarithms need to be evaluated numerically. Routines implementing the described formalisms are included as supplemental material.