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On self consistent electrostatic fields in inhomogeneous plasmas for the hydrodynamic approximation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2009
Abstract
The self consistent electrostatic field due to plasma inhomogeneities and associated with free expansion of a plasma into a vacuum is evaluated in the framework of two-fluid hydrodynamics and the corresponding generalized Rieman's self-similar solution found. The case of an adiabatic expansion is also discussed and the results obtained are applied to a laser produced plasma with a characteristic electron temperature of 1 keV and a characteristic time scale of 1 nsec.
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