https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2007-00305-4
Thermodynamic and transport properties in equilibrium air plasmas in a wide pressure and temperature range
1
DIFA, Università della Basilicata, viale dell'Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
2
CNR-IMIP Bari, via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy
3
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
Corresponding author: a antonio.dangola@unibas.it
Received:
4
August
2007
Published online:
23
November
2007
Thermodynamic and transport properties of high temperature
equilibrium air plasmas have been calculated in a wide pressure
( atm) and temperature range (
K). The
results have been obtained by using a self-consistent approach for
the thermodynamic properties and higher order approximation of the
Chapman-Enskog method for the transport coefficients.
Debye-Hükel corrections have been considered in the
thermodynamic properties while collision integrals of charge-charge
interactions have been obtained by using a screened Coulomb
potential. Calculated values have been fitted by closed forms ready
to be inserted in fluid dynamic codes.
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, 2007