In this section we wish to give a detailed account of all the transport coefficients related to the vectorial fluxes discussed in the previous chapters. These are the mass flux \(\vec{J}_{a}\) (\(=-\vec{J}_{b}\) ), the corresponding charge flux or electrical current \(\vec{J}_{c}\) , closely related to \(\vec{J}_{a}\) , and \(\vec{J}^{\prime}_{q}\) the heat flux. In every case the magnetic field is chosen as the direction of the z-axis, \(\vec{B}=B\hat{k}\) so that for any vector, its different components respect to \(\vec{B}\) will follow from the decomposition illustrated in Fig. (4.1).
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García-Colín, L.S., Dagdug, L. (2009). The Transport Coefficients. In: The Kinetic Theory of a Dilute Ionized Plasma. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9330-2_6
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