Dust in the magnetized sheath

B. P. Pandey*, A. Samarian, S. V. Vladimirov

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    Abstract

    In the present work the structure of the magnetized sheath is investigated in the multifluid framework. The ambient magnetic field is assumed parallel to the wall and the effect of the plasma magnetization, plasma ionization, and plasma-neutral collisions on the sheath is examined. It is shown that the width of the non-neutral boundary layer is dependent on the collision frequencies as well as on the plasma magnetization. The size of the sheath layer can decrease with the increase in magnetic field. The increase in the ion-neutral collision can also adversely affect the sheath size. The equilibrium and levitation of the dust particles in a collisional magnetized sheath are shown to depend on the collision frequencies and on the magnetization. Further, the increase in the collision or magnetization invariably leads to the presence of the positively charged grains near the plasma wall suggesting that the grain levitation inside the charged layer is implicitly dependent on the plasma parameters in a nontrivial way.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number093703
    Pages (from-to)1-8
    Number of pages8
    JournalPhysics of Plasmas
    Volume14
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Bibliographical note

    Copyright 2007 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Physics of plasmas, Vol. 14, Issue 9, pp.093703-1-093703-8, and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?php/14/093703.

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