Transport Phenomena in a Completely Ionized Gas

Lyman Spitzer, Jr. and Richard Härm
Phys. Rev. 89, 977 – Published 1 March 1953
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Abstract

The coefficients of electrical and thermal conductivity have been computed for completely ionized gases with a wide variety of mean ionic charges. The effect of mutual electron encounters is considered as a problem of diffusion in velocity space, taking into account a term which previously had been neglected. The appropriate integro-differential equations are then solved numerically. The resultant conductivities are very close to the less extensive results obtained with the higher approximations on the Chapman-Cowling method, provided the Debye shielding distance is used as the cutoff in summing the effects of two-body encounters.

  • Received 10 November 1952

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.89.977

©1953 American Physical Society

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Lyman Spitzer, Jr. and Richard Härm

  • Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, New Jersey

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Vol. 89, Iss. 5 — March 1953

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