Efficient and consistent methodology for the calculation of population densities, partition functions, and thermodynamic properties of ideal and weakly non-ideal multicomponent plasma mixtures in the P-T phase space

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 6 II, 2005, Pages 1973-1983

  Zaghloul, Mofreh R ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Equilibrium composition; Multicomponent non ideal plasmas; Saha equations; Thermodynamic properties

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FREE ENERGY; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PRESSURE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

EQUILIBRIUM COMPOSITION; FREE ENERGY FUNCTION; MULTICOMPONENT NON-IDEAL PLASMAS; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE (P-T) PHASE SPACE; SAHA EQUATIONS;

PLASMA APPLICATIONS;

EID: 30444440011     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.860126     Document Type: Article

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