Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Transport (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics Book 74)

__Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Transport__ develops basic and advanced concepts of plasma transport to the modern treatment of the Chapman-Enskog method for the solution of the Boltzmann transport equation. The book invites the reader to consider actual problems of the transport of thermal plasmas with particular attention to the derivation of diffusion- and viscosity-type transport cross sections, stressing the role of resonant charge-exchange processes in affecting the diffusion-type collision calculation of viscosity-type collision integrals. A wide range of topics is then discussed including (1) the effect of non-equilibrium vibrational distributions on the transport of vibrational energy, (2) the role of electronically excited states in the transport properties of thermal plasmas, (3) the dependence of transport properties on the multitude of Saha equations for multi-temperature plasmas, and (4) the effect of the magnetic field on transport properties. Throughout the book, worked examples are provided to clarify concepts and mathematical approaches. This book is the second of a series of three published by the Bari group on fundamental aspects of plasma chemical physics. The first book, __Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Thermodynamics__, is dedicated to plasma thermodynamics; and the third, __Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Kinetics__, deals with plasma kinetics. Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Tranpsort develops basic and advanced concepts of plasma transport to the modern treatment of the Chapman-Enskog method for the solution of the Boltzmann transport equation. The book invites the reader to consider actual problems of the transport of thermal plasmas with particular attention to the derivation of diffusion- and viscosity-type transport cross sections, stressing the role of resonant charge-exchange processes in affecting the diffusion-type collision calculation of viscosity-type collision integrals. A wide range of topics is then discussed including (1) the effect of non-equilibrium vibrational distributions on the transport of vibrational energy, (2) the role of electronically excited states in the transport properties of thermal plasmas, (3) the dependence of transport properties on the multitude of Saha equations for multi-temperature plasmas, and (4) the effect of the magnetic field on transport properties. Throughout the book, worked examples are provided to clarify concepts and mathematical approaches. This book is the second of a series of three published by the Bari group on fundamental aspects of plasma chemical physics. The first book, Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Thermodynamics, is dedicated to plasma thermodynamics; and the third, Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Kinetics, deals with plasma kinetics Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Transport Processes in Dilute Polyatomic Gases....Pages 1-43 Transport Coefficient Evaluation....Pages 45-56 Transport Cross Sections: Classical and Quantum Approaches....Pages 57-98 Resonant Charge Exchange in Ion-Parent–Atom Collisions: The Inelastic Contribution to Odd-Order Collision Integrals....Pages 99-121 Collision Integrals for Interactions Involving Excited Species....Pages 123-147 Vibrational Excitation and Transport Properties of Reacting Gases: Beyond the Eucken Approximation....Pages 149-163 Electronically Excited States and Transport Properties of Thermal Plasmas....Pages 165-204 Transport Properties of Multi-temperature Plasmas....Pages 205-230 Transport Properties in the Presence of Magnetic Fields....Pages 231-245 Some Problems in the Calculation of Transport Properties of Partially Ionized Gases....Pages 247-271 Transport Properties of High Temperature Planetary Atmospheres....Pages 273-347 Back Matter....Pages 349-352