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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Hydrodynamic Transport Coefficients in Plasmas
Briggs Damman, Jarett LeVan, Scott Baalrud
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to calculate transport coefficients in a two-component plasma interacting through a repulsive Coulomb potential. The thermal conductivi…
Plasma hydrodynamics from mean force kinetic theory
Jarett LeVan, Scott D. Baalrud
Mean force kinetic theory is used to evaluate the electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, electrothermal coefficient, thermoelectric coefficient, and shear viscosity of a tw…
Foundations of magnetohydrodynamics
Jarett LeVan, Scott Baalrud
In this tutorial, a derivation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) valid beyond the usual ideal gas approximation is presented. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is used to obtain conservat…
Intrinsic bulk viscosity of the one-component plasma
Jarett LeVan, Scott D. Baalrud
Intrinsic bulk viscosity of the one-component plasma (OCP) is computed and analyzed using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and the Green-Kubo formalism. It is found that…
Bulk viscosity of the rigid rotor one-component plasma
Jarett LeVan, Marco Acciarri, Scott Baalrud
Bulk viscosity of a plasma consisting of strongly coupled diatomic ions is computed using molecular dynamics simulations. The simulations are based on the rigid rotor one-component…
Disorder-induced heating in molecular atmospheric pressure plasmas
Jarett LeVan, Marco Acciarri, Scott Baalrud
Recent work has shown that ions are strongly coupled in atmospheric pressure plasmas when the ionization fraction is sufficiently large, leading to a temperature increase from diso…