Continuum-plasma solution surrounding nonemitting spherical bodies

The classical problem of the interaction of a nonemitting spherical body with a zero mean-free-path continuum plasma is solved numerically in the full range of physically allowed free parameters (electron Debye length to body radius ratio, ion to electron temperature ratio, and body bias), and analy...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Patacchini, Leonardo, Hutchinson, Ian Horner
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physic 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55370