Macroscopic behaviour of a charged Boltzmann gas

L. Bányai, P. Gartner, V. Protopopescu

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Abstract

We consider a classical charged gas (with self-consistent Coulomb interaction) described by a solvable linearized Boltzmann equation with thermalization on uniformly distributed scatterers. It is shown that if one scales the time t, the reciprocal space coordinate k and the Debye length l as λ2t, (1/λ)k, λl, respectively, in the λ → ∞ limit the charge density is equal to the solution of the corresponding diffusion-conduction (macroscopic) equation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)166-178
Number of pages13
JournalPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume107
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1981
Externally publishedYes

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