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Non-equilibrium Microwave Plasma for Efficient High Temperature Chemistry
Published on: August 1, 2017
Kinetic theory of weak turbulence in plasmas
1Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China. wangsj@ustc.edu.cn
Abstract:
From the nonlinear Vlasov equation, a nonlinear turbulence scattering term is found to describe stochastic dissipation on a time scale longer than the turbulence correlation time. The evolution of the plasma distribution is determined by the well-understood unperturbed motion of charged particles, with the effects of the fluctuating part of fields described by the turbulence scattering term. In the present framework, one can identify various important physics, from the linear and quasilinear regimes to the nonlinear regime, in particular, the connections between the widely used Kadomtsev-Pogutse equation [B. B. Kadomtsev and O. P. Pogutse, in Reviews of Plasma Physics, edited by M. A. Leontovich (Consultants Bureau, New York, 1970), pp. 368-387] and the Frieman-Chen equation [Frieman and Chen, Phys. Fluids 25, 502 (1982)]. The nonlinear scattering term indicates the Onsager symmetry relation of turbulent transport and a nonlinear frequency or k spectrum shift of a resonantly excited wave.
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