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Full Coulomb collision operator in the moment expansion

Phys. Plasmas 16, 102108 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3234253

Published 19 October 2009

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Jeong-Young Ji and Eric D. Held
Department of Physics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA
The full Coulomb collision operator and its moments including nonlinear terms are analytically calculated in the moment expansion. In coupling nonlinear terms, the product formula which expresses a product of two harmonic tensors as a series of single harmonic tensors is derived. The collision operators and moments are written in explicit formulas for arbitrary moments and for arbitrary temperature and mass ratios. These expressions easily reduce to formulas for the small mass-ratio approximation or for like species. ©2009 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 14 August 2009; accepted 1 September 2009; published 19 October 2009
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PACS
  • 52.20.-j
    Elementary processes in plasma
  • 52.25.Dg
    Plasma kinetic equations
  • YEAR: 2009

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