ABSTRACT

The term "multicomponent plasma" implies a partially or fully ionized gas mixture of an arbitrary number of species of neutral and charged particles satisfying the condition of quasineutrality. The peculiar collective Coulomb interaction of charged particles as well as the presence of electric and magnetic fields result in a greater variety of phenomena in the ionized gases as compared with a common gas mixture, yet general kinetic methods of analysis are equally applicable in the case of plasma. This refers primarily to the phenomena of electrical conductivity, diffusion, viscosity and thermal conductivity known under the common term of transport phenomena.