Viscosity in a magnetized plasma - Physical interpretation

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Aug 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jgr....90.7620h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 90, Aug. 1, 1985, p. 7620-7622.

Physics

57

Electron Plasma, Flow Velocity, Hydrogen Plasma, Plasmas (Physics), Viscosity, Conservation Equations, Degrees Of Freedom, Reynolds Number

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The viscosity of a fully ionized H plasma in a magnetic field is investigated theoretically, revising the derivation proposed by Braginskii (1965) for the viscous-stress-tensor viscosity coefficient eta(0). It is shown that eta(0) terms can be attributed to the tendency of the plasma to produce small thermal anisotropies during its evolution, and hence that they are fully incorporated in the gyrotropic diagonal pressure tensor, neglecting the off-diagonal terms. The role of collisions in preventing anisotropy production (and thus causing irreversible heating) is explored, and the implications of the eta(0) terms for the physics of 1000-10,000-km-scale structures in the solar corona are indicated.

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