Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Plasmas
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Thermodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 35
Special Issue Editors
Interests: statistical thermodynamics; transport properties; plasma physics and plasma chemistry; Boltzmann equation; state-to-state kinetics; high-enthalpy flows
Interests: plasma kinetics; elementary processes in plasmas; electronic structure calculations; excited state dynamics; transport properties of plasmas
Interests: transport processes; kinetic theory; non-equilibrium reacting flows; state-to-state kinetic models; multi-temperature models; polyatomic gas flows
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Dear Colleagues,
Low-temperature plasmas are applied in different technological fields, from material processing to aerospace. A fundamental aspect in characterizing plasma is the determination of its thermodynamic and transport properties. This is relevant not only to the equilibrium but also to out-of-equilibrium regimes, especially when internal levels depart from the Maxwellian distribution, and the role of excited states needs to be investigated. Moderate, non-equilibrium conditions are modeled by the multi-temperature approach, a convenient alternative to state-to-state kinetics. It requires an accurate definition of the thermal properties of chemical species and of the characteristic temperatures to describe the internal degrees of freedom; these model parameters significantly affect rate coefficients due to the lowering of activation energy for reactive processes initiated from excited levels.
This Special Issue is devoted to the discussion of these aspects and relevant open problems in the thermodynamic and transport characterization of equilibrium and non-equilibrium plasmas.
Dr. Gianpiero Colonna
Dr. Annarita Laricchiuta
Prof. Dr. Elena Kustova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- equilibrium plasma
- non-equilibrium plasma
- Chapman–Enskog method
- multi-temperature models
- state-to-state models
- excited states
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