Journal article
Theory of collision-dominated dust voids in plasmas
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, Vol.63(5 Pt 2), pp.056609-056609
05/2001
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.056609
PMID: 11415033
Abstract
A dust void, i.e., the dust-free region in a dusty plasma, results from the balance of the electrostatic and plasma (such as the ion drag) forces acting on a dust particle. The properties of dust voids depend on the ratio of the void size to the mean free path of plasma ions colliding with neutral species of a weakly ionized plasma. For many plasma-processing and plasma-crystal experiments, the size of the void is much larger than the ion-neutral mean free path. The theory and numerical results are presented for such a collisional case including the situations in which the plasma is quasineutral in the void region or the plasma quasineutrality is violated, as well as the case in which the ion ram pressure is insignificant.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Theory of collision-dominated dust voids in plasmas
- Creators
- V N Tsytovich - General Physics Institute, Vavilova 38, Moscow 117942, Russia.S V Vladimirov - The University of SydneyG E Morfill - Max Planck SocietyJ Goree - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, Vol.63(5 Pt 2), pp.056609-056609
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.056609
- PMID
- 11415033
- NLM abbreviation
- Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
- ISSN
- 1539-3755
- eISSN
- 1550-2376
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2001
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy; Mechanical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984199826802771
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