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Title: Analysis of pair interparticle interaction in nonideal dissipative systems

Journal Article · · Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
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  1. Russian Academy of Sciences, Joint Institute for High Temperatures (Russian Federation)

A new method is proposed for determining the interaction forces between particles in nonideal dissipative systems with isotropic pair potentials. The method is based on the solution of the inverse problem describing the motion of interacting particles by a system of Langevin equations and allows one to recover the parameters of the external confining potential without referring to a priori information on the friction coefficients of the particles. This procedure was tested by a numerical simulation of the problem in a wide range of parameters typical of experimental conditions in a laboratory dusty plasma. The results of the first experimental approbation of the method as applied to the analysis of the interaction of dust particles in a laboratory high-frequency capacitive discharge plasma are presented.

OSTI ID:
21443553
Journal Information:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Vol. 110, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1134/S1063776110040138; Copyright (c) 2010 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; ISSN 1063-7761
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English