Analytical Solutions to the Kinetic Theory of Neutrals in a Bounded Plasma Slab

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, , Citation P Bachmann 1987 Phys. Scr. 35 20 DOI 10.1088/0031-8949/35/1/004

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Abstract

The integral equation defined on a finite interval with convolution kernel, which is the basic equation in the analytical kinetic theory of neutrals in a bounded plasma slab, is solved by reinvestigating the corresponding Riemann boundary value problem. For the case that the Fourier transform of the kernel is a rational function, a general analytical solution formalism is derived and used to calculate the density of hydrogen neutrals, without numerical means, for the cases of homogeneous and inhomogeneous plasma temperatures.

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