Theory of a cavity around a large floating sphere in complex (dusty) plasma
| Autor: | Khrapak, S., Huber, P., Thomas, H., Molotkov, V. Naumkin. V., Lipaev, A. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. E 99, 053210 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.99.053210 |
| Popis: | In the last experiment with the PK-3 Plus laboratory onboard the International Space Station, interactions of millimeter-size metallic spheres with a complex plasma were studied~[M. Schwabe {\it et al.}, New J. Phys. {\bf 19}, 103019 (2017)]. Among the phenomena observed was the formation of cavities (regions free of microparticles forming a complex plasma) surrounding the spheres. The size of the cavity is governed by the balance of forces experienced by the microparticles at the cavity edge. In this article we develop a detailed theoretical model describing the cavity size and demonstrate that it agrees well with sizes measured experimentally. The model is based on a simple practical expression for the ion drag force, which is constructed to take into account simultaneously the effects of non-linear ion-particle coupling and ion-neutral collisions. The developed model can be useful for describing interactions between a massive body and surrounding complex plasma in a rather wide parameter regime. Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures; to be published (2019) |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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