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Viscosity calculated in simulations of strongly coupled dusty plasmas with gas friction
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Viscosity calculated in simulations of strongly coupled dusty plasmas with gas friction

Yan Feng, J Goree and Bin Liu
Physics of plasmas, Vol.18(5), pp.057301-057301-6
04/07/2011
DOI: 10.1063/1.3560584
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.3546View
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Abstract

A two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty plasma is modeled using Langevin and frictionless molecular dynamical simulations. The static viscosity η and the wave-number-dependent viscosity η( k ) are calculated from the microscopic shear in the random motion of particles. A recently developed method of calculating the wave-number-dependent viscosity η( k ) is validated by comparing the results of η( k ) from the two simulations. It is also verified that the Green-Kubo relation can still yield an accurate measure of the static viscosity η in the presence of a modest level of friction as in dusty plasma experiments.

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