Steady-State Distribution Function in Dilute Electron Gases

1960 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Mattis
1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. J. Žigman ◽  
B. S. Milić

The properties of certain wave modes excited in a weakly ionized plasma placed in an external d.c. electric field are analyzed from the standpoint of the linearized kinetic equation, the electron steady-state distribution function being taken in the form of the extended Margenau–Davydov and, in particular, Druyvesteinian. The presence of absolute stability cones formed by certain propagation directions is found. The corresponding critical values of the electron drift, destabilizing each of the modes considered, is also evaluated for a plasma with a Druyvesteinian distribution.


2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Loris-Teghem

For the M[X]/G/1 queueing model with a general exhaustive-service vacation policy, it has been proved that the Laplace-Stieltjes transform (LST) of the steady-state distribution function of the waiting time of a customer arriving while the server is active is the product of the corresponding LST in the bulk arrival model with unremovable server and another LST. The expression given for the latter, however, is valid only under the assumption that the number of groups arriving in an inactive phase is independent of the sizes of the groups. We here give an expression which holds in the general case. For the N-policy case, we also give an expression for the LST of the steady-state distribution function of the waiting time of a customer arriving while the server is inactive.


1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1124-1136
Author(s):  
H. W. H. Van Andel

The steady state distribution function for a suprathermal electron cloud injected into a cylindrical plasma is found as a function of position and velocity by solving the Boltzmann equation numerically in the Fokker–Planck approximation with an added term taking into account electron-neutral collisions. The injection is assumed to take place at one end of the cylinder, and an axial magnetic field is assumed present. A number of representative solutions are given for various choices of the parameters of the problem.


1982 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. J. Žigman ◽  
B. S. Milić

The results of recent experimental measurements of the differential cross-section for elastic scattering of electrons on sodium atoms were used to evaluate the electron steady-state distribution function in a weakly ionized, uniform and non-magnetized sodium plasma placed in a d.c. electric field. The field was assumed to be of moderate intensity, so that the thermal motion of the neutrals had to be taken into account in the evaluation of the distribution function. The resulting ‘modified Druyvesteinian function’ was applied to study the non-potential instabilities arising from the presence of the field in this particular plasma. Threshold drifts for both very slow and slow modes were obtained and the conditions for the onset of instabilities were discussed. It is shown that the thermal motion of the neutrals affects both critical drifts and the angles of propagation.


2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (01) ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Loris-Teghem

For the M[X]/G/1 queueing model with a general exhaustive-service vacation policy, it has been proved that the Laplace-Stieltjes transform (LST) of the steady-state distribution function of the waiting time of a customer arriving while the server is active is the product of the corresponding LST in the bulk arrival model with unremovable server and another LST. The expression given for the latter, however, is valid only under the assumption that the number of groups arriving in an inactive phase is independent of the sizes of the groups. We here give an expression which holds in the general case. For the N-policy case, we also give an expression for the LST of the steady-state distribution function of the waiting time of a customer arriving while the server is inactive.


1985 ◽  
Vol 248 (5) ◽  
pp. C498-C509 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Restrepo ◽  
G. A. Kimmich

Zero-trans kinetics of Na+-sugar cotransport were investigated. Sugar influx was measured at various sodium and sugar concentrations in K+-loaded cells treated with rotenone and valinomycin. Sugar influx follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics as a function of sugar concentration but not as a function of Na+ concentration. Nine models with 1:1 or 2:1 sodium:sugar stoichiometry were considered. The flux equations for these models were solved assuming steady-state distribution of carrier forms and that translocation across the membrane is rate limiting. Classical enzyme kinetic methods and a least-squares fit of flux equations to the experimental data were used to assess the fit of the different models. Four models can be discarded on this basis. Of the remaining models, we discard two on the basis of the trans sodium dependence and the coupling stoichiometry [G. A. Kimmich and J. Randles, Am. J. Physiol. 247 (Cell Physiol. 16): C74-C82, 1984]. The remaining models are terter ordered mechanisms with sodium debinding first at the trans side. If transfer across the membrane is rate limiting, the binding order can be determined to be sodium:sugar:sodium.


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