Investigation of transfer coefficients for many - component dense systemsof neutral and charged hard spheres

Investigation of transfer processes in dense weakly or fully ionized many-component gases is topical in view of construction and improvement of new gaseous lasers, plasmo-chemical reactors for ozone synthesis, and air cleaning of both nitrogen and carbon oxides and chlorine compounds. A study and calculation of transfer coefficients taking into account the interparticle interaction nature is one of the major problems in this investigation. Recent papers by Murphy [1-4] are devoted to these calculations for some special low-density mixtures basing on the Boltzmann kinetic equation for point particles and using accurate interparticle potentials of interaction. Nevertheless, there are some problems in calculation of transfer coefficients for high-density mixtures. They are caused mainly by the fact that the Boltzmann kinetic equation is suitable for rarefied gases and plasmas only. In present work a calculation of transfer coefficients for many-component dense gases for charged and non-charged hard spheres is carried out using the Enskog-Landau kinetic equation which takes into account realistic particle sizes. The Enskog-Landau kinetic equation was obtained in [5,6] for a one-component system of charged hard spheres in the electron compensation field starting from the Bogolubov hierarchy with modified boundary conditions in the pair collision approximation. In paper [7] this equation was generalized for the case of many-component system and usually reads: