Mean force kinetic theory: A convergent kinetic theory for weakly and strongly coupled plasmas

Modified Enskog kinetic theory for strongly coupled plasmas.

Concepts underlying the Enskog kinetic theory of hard-spheres are applied to include short-range correlation effects in a model for transport coefficients of strongly coupled plasmas. The approach is based on an extension of the effective potential transport theory [S. D. Baalrud and J. Daligault, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 235001 (2013)] to include an exclusion radius surrounding individual charged...

Kinetic Theory of Plasmas

Kinetic theory for quantum plasmas

Quantum plasmas have been studied theoretically for more than four decades. Important early applications include the electron gas in metals and the electron-hole plasma in semiconductors and dimensionally reduced nanostructures. Experiments with lasers and ion beams are now making dense quantum plasmas of electrons and (classical) ions accessible in the laboratory giving rise to increased theor...

Kinetic theory of coupled oscillators.

We present an approach for the description of fluctuations that are due to finite system size induced correlations in the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators. We construct a hierarchy for the moments of the density of oscillators that is analogous to the Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon hierarchy in the kinetic theory of plasmas and gases. To calculate the lowest order system size effect, ...

Kinetic Theory of Plasmas: Translational Energy

In the present contribution, we derive from kinetic theory a unified fluid model for multicomponent plasmas by accounting for the electromagnetic field influence. We deal with a possible thermal nonequilibrium of the translational energy of the particles, neglecting their internal energy and the reactive collisions. Given the strong disparity of mass between the electrons and heavy particles, s...