Equation of state of dense krypton plasma in the partial ionization regime

Author

Chen, Q.F. ; Zheng, J. ; Gu, Y.J. ; Cai, L.C.

Author_Institution

Lab. of Shock Wave & Detonation Phys., Inst. of Fluid Phys., Mianyang, China

fYear

2015

fDate

24-28 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The compression behavior of dense krypton plasmas over a wide pressure-temperature range have been investigated by the self-consistent fluid variational theory. The ionization degree and equation of state of dense krypton have been calculated in the range of temperature of 4-50 kK and density of 0.01-10 g/cm³. A region of thermodynamic instability is found that is related plasma phase transition. The calculated shock adiabat and principal Hugoniot of liquid krypton are in good agreement with available experimental data when the ionization energy corrections are taken into account. The results provide a guide for dynamical experiments aimed at studying the compression properties of liquid krypton at very density and fill a gap in research the properties of the inert gases.

Keywords

equations of state; ionisation; krypton; plasma density; plasma instability; plasma shock waves; plasma temperature; plasma thermodynamics; Kr; compression behavior; dense krypton plasma; equation of state; inert gases; ionization energy corrections; partial ionization regime; plasma density; plasma phase transition; plasma temperature; principal Hugoniot; self-consistent fluid variational theory; shock adiabat; temperature 5 kK to 50 kK; thermodynamic instability; Ionization; Liquids; Mathematical model; Physics; Plasmas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Sciences (ICOPS), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Antalya

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2015.7179739

Filename

7179739