Comparison of transport coefficients for weakly coupled multi-component plasmas obtained with different formalisms

TL;DR

This paper compares transport coefficients for weakly coupled multi-component plasmas across different theoretical formalisms, confirming their predictions are consistent due to shared physical assumptions.

Contribution

It provides a direct comparison demonstrating that various formalisms yield identical transport coefficients for weakly coupled plasmas.

Findings

Different formalisms agree on transport coefficients

Validation of theoretical approaches for weakly coupled plasmas

Supports the universality of physical assumptions in plasma modeling

Abstract

LANL Memorandum of potentially broad interest. A direct comparison is performed between transport coefficients for weakly coupled plasmas obtained with different formalisms to demonstrate that these formalisms give identical predictions. This is what one would expect since for weakly coupled plasmas all the formalisms rely on the same physical assumptions and mathematical approximations.