Neoclassical transport in plasmas containing ions with multiple charge states [electronic resource].
Published
Argonne, Ill. : Argonne National Laboratory, 1978. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
It is shown that, in the calculation of the Spitzer function and the Pfirsch-Schlueter transport coefficients of a multispecies plasma, a considerable simplification occurs for the case of ions with multiple charge states. The number of coupled integral equations to be solved can be reduced from the total number of species to the number of species with different nuclei. This generalizes an earlier treatment, in which such a reduction was found under the assumption of the disparate mass approximation. The solutions are expressed in terms of quantities defined wholly within a system of simple ions.