Thermodynamic generalization of the Saha equation for a two-temperature plasma
- 1 November 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 40 (9) , 5273-5276
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.40.5273
Abstract
A thermodynamic generalization of the Saha equation for the case of a two-temperature plasma is given on basis of a modification of the free energy. The resulting equation depends in the first approximation on the electron temperature only. This result has been obtained earlier on basis of kinetic arguments.Keywords
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