https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530070094
Transport properties of high temperature air in local thermodynamic equilibrium
1
Centro di Studio per la Chimica dei Plasmi del CNR, Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università di Bari, via
Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
2
Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Energetica, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Received:
17
November
1999
Published online: 15 August 2000
In the paper new calculated transport coefficients of air in the temperature range 50–100 000 K are presented. The results have been obtained by means of the perturbative Chapman-Enskog method, assuming that the plasma is in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). The calculations include viscosity, thermal conductivity, electric conductivity and multicomponent diffusion coefficients. For the calculation, a recent compilation of collision integrals obtained by Capitelli et al. [CITE] has been utilized. Analytical expression for all transport coefficients and thermodynamic parameters of the air plasma are also reported.
PACS: 52.25.Fi – Transport properties / 52.25.Kn – Thermodynamics of plasmas / 51.20.+d – Viscosity, diffusion, and thermal conductivity
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2000
