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Behavior of dust particles in cylindrical discharges: Structure formation, mixture and void, effect of gravity

Part of: Physics of Dusty Plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2014

Hiroo Totsuji
Hiroo Totsuji*
Affiliation:
ISS Science Project Office, ISAS, JAXA, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8505, Japan Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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†Email address for correspondence: totsuji-09@t.okadai.jp
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Abstract

Theoretical and numerical works on dusty plasmas with cylindrical symmetry are presented. The main purpose has been to investigate behavior of dust particles in strongly coupled dusty plasmas which are expected to be realized in the planned experiments by PK-4 on the International Space Station and experiments by PK-4J, a similar apparatus constructed in Japan. The distribution of dust particles is analyzed on the basis of the drift-diffusion equations and, with the effect of discreteness taken into account, structure formations are numerically simulated.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 80 , Issue 6 , December 2014 , pp. 843 - 848
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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