Behavior of dust particles in cylindrical discharges: Structure formation, mixture and void, effect of gravity
Abstract
Theoretical and numerical works on dusty plasmas with cylindrical symmetry are presented. The main purpose has been to investigate behavior of dust particles in strongly coupled dusty plasmas which are expected to be realized in the planned experiments by PK-4 on the International Space Station and experiments by PK-4J, a similar apparatus constructed in Japan. The distribution of dust particles is analyzed on the basis of the drift-diffusion equations and, with the effect of discreteness taken into account, structure formations are numerically simulated.
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 2014
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- Bibcode:
- 2014JPlPh..80..843T