Title: The velocity distribution of ions in warm gas under a constant-collision-frequency symmetric charge exchange model
Abstract: An explicit expression for the velocity distribution of ion swarms in warm gas is deduced for a constant-collision-frequency symmetric charge exchange model. The ion velocity distribution, the drift velocity and the diffusion coefficient are calculated under DC and AC electric fields. It is found that the ion velocity distribution normalized with respect to the thermal velocity is a function only of dimensionless parameters fixed by physical quantities given as analysis conditions. These dimensionless parameters are potentially good scaling parameters by which different experimental conditions may be compared.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-05-14
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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