Kinetic theory and moment models of electrons in a reactive weakly-ionized non-equilibrium plasma - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP)
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Kinetic theory and moment models of electrons in a reactive weakly-ionized non-equilibrium plasma

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We study the electrons in a multi-component weakly-ionized plasma with an external electric field under conditions that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium, representative of a gas discharge plasma. Our starting point is the generalized Boltzmann equation with elastic, inelastic and reactive collisions. We perform a dimensional analysis of the equation and an asymptotic analysis of the collision operators for small electron-to-atom mass ratios and small ionization levels. The dimensional analysis leads to a diffusive scaling for the electron transport. We perform a Hilbert expansion of the electron distribution function that, in the asymptotic limit, results in a reduced model characterized by a spherically symmetric distribution function in the velocity space with a small anisotropic perturbation. We show that the spherical-harmonics expansion model, widely used in low-temperature plasmas, is a particular case of our approach. We approximate the solution of our kinetic model with a truncated moment hierarchy. Finally, we study the moment problem for a particular case: a Langevin collision (equivalent to Maxwell molecules) for the electron-gas elastic collisions. The resulting Stieltjes moment problem leads to an advection-diffusion-reaction system of equations that is approximated with two different closures: the quadrature method of moments and a Hermitian moment closure. A special focus is given along the derivations and approximations to the notion of entropy dissipation.

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hal-04886705 , version 1 (14-01-2025)

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Alejandro Alvarez Laguna, Teddy Pichard. Kinetic theory and moment models of electrons in a reactive weakly-ionized non-equilibrium plasma. 2025. ⟨hal-04886705⟩
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