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Overestimation of Viscosity by the Green-Kubo Method in a Dusty Plasma Experiment
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Overestimation of Viscosity by the Green-Kubo Method in a Dusty Plasma Experiment

Zach Haralson and J Goree
Physical review letters, Vol.118(19), pp.195001-195001
05/12/2017
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.195001
PMID: 28548538
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https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1356452View
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Abstract

The Green-Kubo (GK) method is widely used in simulations of strongly coupled plasmas to obtain the viscosity coefficient. However, the method's applicability, which is often taken for granted, has not been tested experimentally. We report an experimental test using a two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty plasma. We find that the GK viscosity is ≈60% larger than the result of a benchmark hydrodynamic method, obtained in the same experiment with the same conditions except for the presence of shear.

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