The time dependence of the longitudinal and transverse temperatures in a completely ionized plasma immersed in a variable uniform electric field is analyzed by solving gas dynamics equations based on a bi-Maxwellian distribution.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 64–72, December, 2008.
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Komarov, V.N. Anisotropic temperature of charged particles in a variable electric field. Russ Phys J 51, 1316–1326 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-009-9184-9
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