Plasma Shock Layer Equations

TL;DR

This paper derives plasma shock layer equations considering chemical reactions and radiation, providing a set of PDEs for multi-species charged particles in electromagnetic fields, addressing complex environments with interactions and dissipation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel derivation of plasma shock layer equations as singularly perturbed ODEs, incorporating chemical reactions, radiation, and multi-particle interactions.

Findings

Derived governing equations for multi-particle plasmas.

Formulated plasma shock layer equations as singularly perturbed ODEs.

Addressed complex interactions in plasma environments.

Abstract

This paper is devoted to derivation of plasma equations, considering chemical reactions and radiations. After deriving the governing equations of multi-particle plasmas, the ordinary differential equations of plasma shock layer equations are derived. These ODEs are in the form of a singularly perturbed systems of ordinary differential equations. Many of physical environments consist of two or more types of particles, each having its own characteristics, such an environment may undergo some evolutions in the presence of external forces, e.g., in the presence of electromagnetic or gravitation fields, and may also be affected by a source of energy or by interaction with its external environment. The situation becomes more complex when there are some internal interactions due to collisions between particles, chemical reactions and various dissipation mechanisms. From microscopic point of view, the random motion of different particles and local forces, energy or mass transaction and their recursive dependence with that of global makes the qualitative behaviors of the environment even more complex. Heat convection in a liquid mixture, a vibrating or rotating viscose fluid, chemically reacting multiphase media and plasma in an electric and magnetic field are examples, to say a few. Up to the author knowledge there is no general and precise mathematical formulation efficiently describing such environments, although statistical formulation in Kinetic theory combined with some physical interpretations is a good approach but insufficient, say in describing radiation. Our aim in this note is to give a set of partial differential equation governing evaluation of a multispecies environment consisting of charged particles in an electromagnetic field.