Title
Particle dynamics description of "bGK collisions" as a Poisson process
Date Issued
01 January 2009
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
The Gordeyev integral for plasma particles colliding with neutrals is obtained using a particle dynamics formalism in which the collisions are modeled as a discrete Poisson process. The result leads to an electron density fluctuation spectrum model for partially ionized plasmas which is identical with the spectral model obtained from BGK plasma kinetic equations. This isomorphism between the Poisson process and the BGK operator is analogous to a similar relation between the Brownian motion process and the Fokker-Planck operator with constant coefficients. We take advantage of this analogy to derive a collisional ISR spectrum model that takes into account collisions with both neutrals and charged species. Copyright 2009 by the American Geophysical Union.
Volume
114
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-72649101132
Source
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
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