DEBYE-HUCKEL, THOMAS-FERMI THEORY OF PLASMAS AND LIQUID METALS: NUMERICAL SOLUTION

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1957

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4311663· OSTI ID:4311663

Cowan, R D; Kirkwood, J G

A Debye-Huckel-type theory is described for an assembly of completely ionized atoms, the nuclei being treated classically and the electrons by the Thomas-Fermi method. The thermodynamic functions are derived by considering the Debye chnrging process, and the virial theorem is shown to hold. Numerical results are given for hydrogen and iron near normal solid densities, and are probably accurate only at high temperatures (kT > 5 ev for hydrogen and kT> 100 ev for iron). (auth)

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven. Sterling Chemistry Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• NSA Number: NSA-12-004889
• OSTI ID: 4311663
• Report Number(s): AECU-3616
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-58
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

PHYSICS
ATOMIC MODELS
DEBYE-HUECKEL THEORY
DENSITY
ELECTRIC CHARGES
ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY
ELECTROLYSIS
ELECTROLYTES
ELECTRONS
HIGH TEMPERATURE
HYDROGEN
IONIZATION
IONS
IRON
LIQUID METALS
NUCLEI
NUMERICALS
PARTICLES
PLASMA
SOLIDS
STATISTICS
THERMODYNAMICS
THOMAS-FERMI MODEL
VIRIAL THEOREM