Yu I Matveenko et al 2008 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 355501 doi:10.1088/1751-8113/41/35/355501
Yu I Matveenko, D A Gryaznykh, A A Kondrat'ev and I A Litvinenko
Show affiliationsThe Boltzmann kinetic equation for nonhydrodynamic weakly ionized plasma in the presence of both electric and magnetic fields is considered. The charged particles distribution function is decomposed in terms of spherical harmonics in momentum space. After substituting the expansion into the Boltzmann equation an infinite hierarchy of differential equations for the distribution function expansion coefficients is derived. The cases of Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates in configuration space are studied. We applied obtained equations to the description of electron transport in nitrogen at high values of rf electric field intensity to number density ratio E/N.
52.25.Dg Plasma kinetic equations
52.20.Hv Atomic, molecular, ion, and heavy-particle collisions
Issue 35 (5 September 2008)
Received 7 February 2008, in final form 5 June 2008
Published 28 July 2008
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