Conveners
1.5 Dusty Plasmas and Strongly Coupled Plasmas
- Lorin Matthews (Baylor University)
Complex plasmas have proven a versatile analog for the study of soft matter systems, particularly those whose global behavior is determined by the combined effect of the particles’ low kinetic energy, interparticle interactions mediated by the streaming ion flow and local confinement forces. On Earth, the streaming ion flow plays a major role in shaping the interparticle interaction and in...
Understanding the thermodynamics of dusty plasmas requires knowledge of the energy transfer, or convection, in this open driven dissipative system. Convection is the global flow of heat due to particle transport, which includes the two subprocesses: advection (directed flow) and diffusion (random motion). The interaction with the ion flow and the presence of gradients in the dust charging can...
