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On The Transport Equations For Anisotropic Plasmas, Abdallah R. Barakat
On The Transport Equations For Anisotropic Plasmas, Abdallah R. Barakat
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
First, I attempt to present a unified approach to the study of transport phenomena in multicoponent anisotropic space plasmas. In the limit of small temperature anisotropies this system of generalized transport equations reduces to Grad's 13-moment system of transport equations. In the collisionless limit, the generalized transport equations account for collisionless heat flow, collisionless viscosity, and large temperature anisotropies. Also, I show that with the appropriate assumptions, the system of generalized transport equations reduces to all of the other major systems of transport equations for anisotropic plasmas that have been derived to date.
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