ABSTRACT
The systematic analysis of transport that considered arbitrary differences between ion and electron temperatures and velocities was carried out by Braginskii. This chapter discusses the similarities and differences between transport processes in plasmas and in neutral gas mixtures; this will help in clarifying approaches to the kinetics of plasma transport that can be found in related literature. A self-consistent transport model for Lorentzian plasmas was given by Albritton et al. Standard transport theory is applicable when the characteristic macroscopic length is larger than the mean free path for collisions that lead to a Maxwellian distribution. A direct numerical calculation of the departure of the distribution function from a local Maxwellian was first performed by Spitzer and Harm.
