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This work is concerned with the development of a novel, accurate equation of state for describing partially ionised air plasma in local thermodynamic equilibrium. One key application for this new equation of state is the simulation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Frederik Träuble , Stephen Millmore , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

The concept of basic chemical models is introduced, which is new from the standpoint of the physics of nonideal atomic plasma. This concept is based on the requirement of full conformity of the expression for free energy in the chemical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. L. Khomkin , I. A. Mulenko , A. S. Shumikhin

Multiply charged actinide molecules provide a unique platform to study fundamental physics and the chemical bond under extreme conditions. Beyond the inherently large relativistic effects associated with a high proton number $Z$, an…

We review integrated dynamical approaches to describe heavy ion reaction as a whole at ultrarelativistic energies. Since final observables result from all the history of the reaction, it is important to describe all the stages of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Tetsufumi Hirano , Pasi Huovinen , Koichi Murase , Yasushi Nara

A model for ionization and recombination collisions in a multifluid plasma is formulated using the framework introduced in previous work [{Phys. Plasmas} \textbf{22}, 093512 (2015)]. The exchange source terms for density, momentum and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 H. P. Le , J. -L. Cambier

Our series of articles is devoted to high-precision molecular dynamics simulation of mixed actinide-oxide (MOX) fuel in the approximation of rigid ions and pair interactions (RIPI) using high-performance graphics processors (GPU). In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-06 S. I. Potashnikov , A. S. Boyarchenkov , K. A. Nekrasov , A. Ya. Kupryazhkin

Equations of state (EOS) calculated from a computationally efficient atom-in-jellium treatment of the electronic structure have recently been shown to be consistent with more rigorous path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and quantum molecular…

Most plasmas are only partially ionized. To better understand the dynamics of these plasmas, the behaviors of a mixture of neutral species and plasma in ideal magnetohydrodynamic states are investigated. The current approach is about the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Zhigang Pu , Chang Liu , Kun Xu

We present a new model of warm dense matter that represents an intermediate approach between the relative simplicity of ''one-ion'' average atom models and the more realistic but computationally expensive ab initio simulation methods.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 D. Saumon , C. E. Starrett , J. A. Anta , W. Daughton , G. Chabrier

Lithium-ion batteries are used to store energy in electric vehicles. Physical models based on electro-chemistry accurately predict the cell dynamics, in particular the state of charge. However, these models are nonlinear partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Sepideh Afshar , Kirsten Morris , Amir Khajepour

We investigate the dissociation and ionization equilibria of deuterium fluid over a wide range of temperatures and densities. The partition functions for molecular and atomic species are evaluated, in a statistical-mechanically consistent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-19 Mofreh R. Zaghloul

In a recent paper (Krishan 2021), a two-fluid description of a partially ionized plasma was presented in which electron fluid and the neutral fluid were combined appropriately into one fluid, christened as ENe fluid, and treat the ions as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 V. Krishan

The Bredig transition to the superionic phase indicated with the lambda-peak in Cp was highly expected for PuO2 as other actinide dioxides. However, least-square fit and local smoothing techniques applied to the experimental enthalpy data…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 S. D. Günay , B. Akgenç , Ç. Taşseven

We derive self-consistent formalism for the description of multi-component partially ionized solar plasma, by means of the coupled equations for the charged and neutral components for an arbitrary number of chemical species, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Elena Khomenko , Manuel Collados , Antonio Diaz , Nikola Vitas

Using a perturbative approach, an evolution equation for the space charge density, correct up to the third order, is deduced for arbitrary initial density profiles of the electron and ion fluids in a cold nonrelativistic plasma. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Subhasish Bag , Vikrant Saxena

Recently developed analytic approximation for the equation of state of fully ionized nonideal electron-ion plasma mixtures [Potekhin et al., Phys. Rev. E, 79, 016411 (2009); arXiv:0812.4344], which covers the transition between the weak and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 A. Y. Potekhin , G. Chabrier , A. I. Chugunov , H. E. DeWitt , F. J. Rogers

Based on the Langevin equation, a stochastic formulation is implemented to describe the dynamics of a trapped ion in a bath of ultracold atoms, including an excess of micromotion. The ion dynamics is described following a hybrid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-30 Mateo Londoño , Javier Madroñero , Jesús Pérez Ríos

A criterion to define a pure pair-ion (PI) plasma is presented. It is suggested that the lighter elements (like H and He) are more suitable to produce PI plasmas. The observation of ion acoustic wave (IAW) in recent experiments with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 Hamid Saleem

The thermodynamics of the lattice model of intercalation of ions in crystals is considered in the mean field approximation. Pseudospin formalism is used for the description of interaction of electrons with ions and the possibility of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-07-08 T. S. Mysakovych , V. O. Krasnov , I. V. Stasyuk

We have studied the dependence of metal oxide properties in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on the polarizability of oxygen ions. We present studies of both liquid and crystalline structures of silica (SiO2), magnesia (MgO) and alumina…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-13 Philipp Beck , Peter Brommer , Johannes Roth , Hans-Rainer Trebin