Derivation of the Saha relation for a two-temperature system
Abstract
The validity of using the Saha equation to describe the behavior of a two-temperature system is derived from first principles. The conditions for the validity of this approach are given. The analysis applies to the case of free carriers in a weakly ionized dense medium. In a multitemperature system the entropy is a more useful quantity than traditional quantities such as the free energy or fugacity, which implicitly presume a single temperature.
- Publication:
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APS March Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- March 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002APS..MARU19010B