Abstract
We consider the ambipolar diffusion in a partially ionized medium with two positively charged ionic species. Unlike the one specie case, the ambipolar diffusion tensor is density dependent. Nevertheless this nonlinearity becomes self-suppressed with time. Hence each specie then continues to diffuse in an effectively linear fashion with the same spatial distribution but with different decay rates.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 207-209 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Physica Scripta |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 1 Mar 1985 |