Coupling models describe the kinetic processes in plasma

EU-funded scientists developed novel methods to describe the plasma state of matter and gases far from thermodynamic equilibrium using the kinetic theory of gases and the hydrodynamics of fluids.

Particle transport in plasmas or rarefied gases can be predicted by kinetic or hydrodynamic models. The former is based, amongst others, on Boltzmann kinetic equations that can be solved using either statistical particle methods and Monte Carlo simulations or a numerical solution of the kinetic equations employing discrete velocity methods. Fluid models, which apply for particles that are at thermodynamic equilibrium, can be derived from the kinetic equations, and describe the system on a macroscopic level.

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