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Published on: June 1, 2016
Elemental transport coefficients in viscous plasma flows near local thermodynamic equilibrium
Alessio Orsini1, Elena V Kustova
1Avio Aerospace Propulsion, via I Maggio 99, Rivalta di Torino 10040, Italy. alessio.orsini@gatech.edu
Abstract:
We propose a convenient formulation of elemental transport coefficients in chemically reacting and plasma flows locally approaching thermodynamic equilibrium. A set of transport coefficients for elemental diffusion velocities, heat flux, and electric current is introduced. These coefficients relate the transport fluxes with the electric field and with the spatial gradients of elemental fractions, pressure, and temperature. The proposed formalism based on chemical elements and fully symmetric with the classical transport theory based on chemical species, is particularly suitable to model mixing and demixing phenomena due to diffusion of chemical elements. The aim of this work is threefold: to define a simple and rigorous framework suitable for numerical implementation, to allow order of magnitude estimations and qualitative predictions of elemental transport phenomena, and to gain a deeper insight into the physics of chemically reacting flows near local equilibrium.
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