Thermal conductivity of strongly coupled Yukawa fluids
Sergey A. Khrapak
Abstract
A vibrational model of heat conduction in liquids with soft pairwise interactions is applied to estimate the thermal conductivity coefficient of strongly coupled Yukawa fluids. A reasonable agreement with the available data from numerical simulations is observed. The results can be useful in the context of strongly coupled plasma and complex (dusty) plasma fluids, when Yukawa (or screened Coulomb) interaction potential is applicable.
Topics & Concepts
Yukawa potentialPhysicsThermal conductionThermal conductivityPlasmaContext (archaeology)ThermalThermodynamicsCondensed matter physicsConductivityThermal diffusivityPairwise comparisonStatistical physicsAtomic physicsQuantum electrodynamicsMagnetohydrodynamicsThermal fluctuationsDust and Plasma Wave PhenomenaMagnetic confinement fusion researchPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism