Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
1. PARTIALLY IONIZED GASES pp 1-2
2. THEORIES OF FLUIDS pp 2-4
3. TOPICS TO BE COVERED pp 4-7
4. UNITS pg 7
5. EQUATION NUMBERING AND OTHER CONVENTIONS pp 7-8
1. INTRODUCTION pp 9-10
2. PARTICLES AND COLLISIONS IN PARTIALLY IONIZED GASES pp10-17
3. CROSS SECTIONS pp 18-22
4. COLLISION CROSS SECTION MAGNITUDES pp 22-32
5. REACTION RATE_ COLLISION FREQUENCY_ AND MEAN FREE PATH pp 32-37
6. THE VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION AND AVERAGES pp37-47
7. ENERGY AND MOMENTUM TRANSFER IN ELASTIC COLLISIONS pp 47-54
8. CHARGED PARTICLE COLLISIONS pp 54-62
9. RADIATIVE PROCESSES pp 62-75
10. EQUILIBRIUM RELATIONS pp 75-80
11. THE PRINCIPLE OF DETAILED BALANCING pp 80-88
12. TRANSPORT PROPERTIES – VISCOSITY AND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY pp 88-94
13. ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY pp 94-100
14. REPRESENTATIVE CROSS-SECTION DATA pp 100-124
1. INTRODUCTION pg 126
2. ELECTRICAL NEUTRALITY – THE DEBYE LENGTH pp 126-129
3. SHEATHS pp 129-134
4. SHIELDED COULOMB POTENTIAL pp 134-136
5. RESPONSE TIME – THE PLASMA FREQUENCY pp 136-140
6. ELECTROSTATIC PROBES pp 140-146
7. AMBIPOLAR DIFFUSION pp 146-155
8. PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES pp 155-162
1. INTRODUCTION pp163-164
2. PARTICLE MOTION IN UNIFORM AND CONSTANT FIELDS pp 165-172
3. EFFECTS OF COLLISIONS – THE HALL CURRENT AND ION SLIP pp 173-182
4. CONTINUUM DESCRIPTION OF CONDUCTING FLUIDS pp 182-187
5. TWO-TEMPERATURE PLASMAS pp 188-189
6. THE MHD APPROXIMATION pp 189-199
7. HARTMANN FLOW pp 199-206
8. THE GENERALIZED OHM’S LAW pp 206-213
9. MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC (MHD) POWER GENERATION pp 214-230
10. TWO-TEMPERATURE IONIZATION INSTABILITY pp 230-241
1. INTRODUCTION pg 242
2. DYNAMICS OF TWO-PARTICLE ELASTIC INTERACTIONS pp 242-246
3. CLASSIFICATION OF TRAJECTORIES pp 247-249
4. CLASSICAL THEORY OF ELASTIC SCATTERING pp 250-255
5. SCATTERING IN A COULOMB FIELD pp 255-260
6. SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING pp 260-263
7. DOMAIN OF VALIDITY OF CLASSICAL THEORY pp 263-265
8. J.J. THOMSON THEORY OF THREE-BODY RECOMBINATION pp 266-269
9. ELECTRON-ION THREE-BODY RECOMBINATION pp 270-272
1. INTRODUCTION pg 273
2. MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS AND RELATED CONCEPTS pp 273-276
3. ELECTROMAGNETIC POTENTIALS pp 276-278
4. PLANE WAVES IN A VACUUM pp 278-281
5. SOLUTION FOR THE POTENTIALS IN AN UNBOUNDED REGION pp 281-284
6. ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION pp 284-291
7. BREMSSTRAHLUNG (FREE-FREE EMISSION) pp 291-296
8. RADIATIVE CAPTURE (FREE-BOUND EMISSION) pp 296-301
9. LINE RADIATION (BOUND-BOUND EMISSION) pp 301-304
10. LINE SHAPE pp 304-313
11. BLACKBODY RADIATION pp 313-320
1. INTRODUCTION pp 321-322
2. DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS AND PARTICLE FLUXES pp 322-326
3. THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION AND THE CONSERVATION EQUATIONS pp 326-338
4. THE FOKKER-PLANCK COLLISION TERM pp 338-344
5. THE EXPANSION FOR SMALL ELECTRON MASS pp 344-351
6. THE CARTESIAN-TENSOR EXPANSION pp 351-368
1. INTRODUCTION pp 369-370
2. WEAKLY IONIZED PLASMAS pp 370-385
3. THE CONDITIONS FOR A MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION pp 385-391
4. PARTIALLY IONIZED PLASMAS pp 391-410
5. FULLY IONIZED PLASMAS pp 410-415
6. HEAVY-PARTICLE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES pp 415-419
7. MIXTURE RULES pp 419-426
8. NONELASTIC COLLISIONS pp 426-430
1. INTRODUCTION pp 431-432
2. CONTINUITY AND RATE EQUATIONS pp 433-442
3. DEPARTURES FROM THE SAHA EQUATION pp 442-457
4. IONIZATION AND RECOMBINATION RATES pp 457-469
5. THE EFFECTS OF A NON-MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION pp 469-482
6. IONIZATIONAL NONEQUILIBRIUM IN FLOWING PLASMAS pp 482-495
Values of Some Fundamental Physical Constants
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