Collisional and resonance absorption of electromagnetic waves in a weakly collisional, inhomogeneous magnetoplasma slab

Molecular dynamics simulations of plasmas in electromagnetic fields: collisional absorption

Collisional absorption of dense fully ionized plasmas in strong laser fields has been investigated using molecular dynamics simulations [1, 2, 3]. The external electric field was implemented as a homogeneous linearly polarized harmonic field. The main difficulty in order to simulate a fully ionized plasma is to model the attractive electron–ion interaction: the pure Coulomb potential has a sing...

Plasma-wall transition in weakly collisional plasmas

This paper reviews some theoretical and computational aspects of plasma-wall interactions, in particidar the formation of sheaths. Some fundamental residts are derived analytically using a simple fluid model, and are subsequently tested with kinetic simulations. The various regions composing the plasma-wall transition (Debye sheath, colUsional and magnetic presheaths) are discussed in details.

Electromagnetic and Fluid Analysis of Collisional Plasmas

Collisional properties of weakly bound heteronuclear dimers

B. Marcelis, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and D. S. Petrov Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands Laboratoire Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistique, Université Paris Sud, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65/67, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands Russian Research ...

Dust grain charging and levitation in a weakly collisional sheath

An experiment is described in which monodisperse dust grains are levitated within a dc sheath above a conducting plate in argon plasma. For plate bias voltages that are not too negative ~>210 electron temperatures!, the observed dust levitation heights are near to values calculated from a model combining equations for the sheath with those for grain charging. When the plate is more negatively b...