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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 May;81(5):056402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.056402. Epub 2010 May 12.

Fluid modeling of void closure in microgravity noble gas complex plasmas.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

Victor Land, Lorin S Matthews, Truell W Hyde, Diana Bolser

Affiliations

  1. Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 20866339 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.056402

Abstract

A self-consistent dusty plasma fluid model has been extended to incorporate all the noble gases as the carrier gas. An analysis of void closure in complex plasma composed of these gases over a wide range of experimental parameters is presented. Driving potential-pressure maps are constructed, which show the range in parameter space where isotropic void-free dust crystals can be expected, where a void is to be expected and where the discharge is expected to extinguish.

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