Computation of the Transport Coefficients Using the Shielded Coulomb Potential (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Richard L. Liboff

9780484501934: Computation of the Transport Coefficients Using the Shielded Coulomb Potential (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0484501933 ISBN 13: 9780484501934

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Discover how shielding changes the math behind ionized gases. This study shows how a shielded Coulomb potential can yield more accurate transport coefficients than the traditional Debye-cutoff approach.

The work presents a clear path from the classical Chapman–Enskog method to new results that incorporate a shielded interaction. It explains why the standard Coulomb treatment leads to divergent integrals and how a Debye-like screening distance regularizes them. Readers will see how the modified potential affects key quantities such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, diffusion, and electrical conductivity, with careful comparisons to conventional methods.

How shielding alters the underlying scattering calculations and the role of the /v integrals in transport coefficients.
The concept of a Debye distance and how it interacts with particle diameter and mean free path.
A step-by-step derivation showing when the dominant log term is independent of the chosen cutoff.
Practical implications for predicting transport properties in ionized gases across different temperatures and densities.

Ideal for readers of advanced plasma physics and kinetic theory seeking a rigorous, self-contained treatment of shielded interactions in transport phenomena.

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