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Numerical Understanding of Thermal Properties of Dusty Plasmas

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Thermal properties of strongly coupled complex dusty plasmas (SCCDPs) are calculated by using improved method of homogeneous nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (HNEMD) simulations, expressed by Yukawa potential, in the canonical ensemble (NVT). The nonlinear effects, under the action of variable external force field strengths, are computed for three-dimensional (3D) SCCDPs. New results for thermal conductivity λ0 with appropriate normalization (Einstein’s frequency ωE) are measured for a wide range of plasma coupling (1 ≤ Γ ≤ 300) and screening strength (1 ≤ κ ≤ 4). Our results of normalized thermal conductivity depend on both Coulomb coupling Γ and screening κ parameters and it is demonstrated that the minimum value of λmin shifts toward higher Γ by an increase in κ, as expected and confirmed in an earlier work. The present results obtained through HNEMD technique are compared with the earlier 3D nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD), equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD), inhomogeneous NEMD results, and theoretical predictions. The presented results of thermal conductivity and nonlinear behavior of SCCDPs have a satisfactory agreement with the earlier used results. Lattice correlation (Ψ) and energies for varying plasma parameters (Γ, κ) have confirmed the three phases as nonideal gaseous-like, liquid-like, and strongly coupled (crystalline structure) complex plasmas.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Z. Donkó (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) for providing his thermal conductivity data of Yukawa Liquids for the comparisons with our simulation results, and for useful discussions. We are grateful to the National Advanced Computing Center of National Center of Physics (NCP), Pakistan, for allocating computer time to test and run our MD code.

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    Aamir Shahzad

  2. Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education (MOE), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P. R. China

    Aamir Shahzad & He Mao-Gang

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Shahzad, A., Mao-Gang, H. (2021). Numerical Understanding of Thermal Properties of Dusty Plasmas. In: Skipidarov, S., Nikitin, M. (eds) Thin Film and Flexible Thermoelectric Generators, Devices and Sensors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45862-1_12

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