The motion of a charged particle in a fluid under a magnetic field
Sang Rak Kim; Sang Rak Kim; Dept. of Phys., Kyonggi Univ., Suwon, South Korea
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Дата:
1994-11-14
Аннотация:
The single-particle dynamics of a charged test particle in a background fluid under a magnetic field are studied using molecular-dynamics computer simulations. The off-diagonal as well as the diagonal components of the velocity autocorrelation functions (VAFs) are computed. The model interaction between the particles is a hard sphere. The diffusion constants and the Hall coefficients are also calculated at various densities. These are compared with a theory based on the projection-operator formalism. In the low density of a background fluid, the VAF can be well approximated by an exponential form. The Hall coefficients with respect to the volume fraction nu show a peak around nu =0.4, reflecting the fact that the ratio D/D<sub>E</sub> should decrease to the value of unity from above where D<sub>E</sub> is the Enskog diffusion constant.
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