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035 0 $aocn495862540
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050 4 $aQC718.5.D9$bB75 1962
090 $aQC718.5.D9$bB75 1962
100 1 $aBrittin, Wesley Emil.
245 10 $aInvestigation of the dynamics of ionized media (plasmas) /$cWesley E. Brittin (Physics, Engineering, Chemistry Corporation, Boulder, Colorado).
260 $aWright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio :$bAerospace Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force :$b[For sale by the Office of Technical Services, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.],$c1962.
300 $av, 179 p. :$bill. ;$c28 cm.
500 $a"ARL 62-334."
500 $a"April 1962."
500 $a"Contract No. AF 33(616)-7586, Project 7071, Task 7071-03."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 178-179).
520 3 $aMethods of treating dilute plasmas were studied. Emphasis was placed on fundamental rather than semi-empirical methods. The analysis is essentially a detailed account of the Prigogine school's approach to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The starting point is the Liouville equation describing the motion of the entire system. The advantage of using the Liouville equation is that it is linear as contrasted to the non-linear equations of dynamics. The Liouville equation is solved (initial value problem) formally by means of the resolvent expansion technique. Terms in the expansion are associated with diagrams, which are then used to study properties of the terms. Classes of diagrams which are relevant to physical situations can in some cases be summed and lead to macroscopic equations of transport. The procedure is illustrated for weakly interacting systems.
650 0 $aPlasma dynamics.
650 0 $aNonequilibrium statistical mechanics.
650 0 $aPlasma (Ionized gases)
650 0 $aIntegral equations.
710 2 $aPhysics, Engineering, Chemistry Corporation.
710 2 $aAerospace Research Laboratories (U.S.)
988 $a20041208
906 $0MH