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The work on the thermokinetic expansion is related to my first work on the expansion of a spherical ball of plasma.1 There, a simplified model was used and it was possible to find some analytical solutions. It turns out that this first model can be made more rigorous by looking for similarity solutions. These were investigated by Alan Haught and the people at United Aircraft.2 One can generalize these similarity solutions so as to apply to nonspherical expansions3 and I will come to these shortly. I will start with the simplest model and discuss the physical arguments related to it.
Presented at the summer workshop “Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena” at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, June 9–13, 1969.
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J. M. Dawson, Phys. Fluids 7, 981 (1964)
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J. M. Dawson, P. Kaw, B. Green, Phys. Fluids 12, 875 (1969)
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Dawson, J.M. (1971). Thermokinetic Expansion Theory. In: Schwarz, H.J., Hora, H. (eds) Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0901-7_16
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