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Gas Discharges, Plasmas

Generalized bohm criterion for a multicomponent plasma

A. E. Dubinov, L. A. Senilov

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Federal Nuclear Center — All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics", Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region

Abstract: We have formulated the generalized Bohm criterion regulating the existence of a stationary charged near-electrode sheath in a multicomponent plasma with an infinitely large number of ion species. The criterion has the form of a set of inequalities one of which coincides with the Bohm criterion for a two-component plasma.

Received: 06.09.2011

 English version: Technical Physics, 2012, 57:8, 1090–1094

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