Electrostatic attraction of charged drops of water inside dropwise cluster
Creators
- 1. Tyumen State Oil and Gas University, 38, Volodarskogo Str., Tyumen 625000 (Russian Federation)
- 2. The RAS Siberian Branch, The Institute of the Earth Cryosphere, P. O. 1230, Tyumen 625000 (Russian Federation)
Description
Based on the analytical solution of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, we demonstrate that inside the electrically neutral system of charges an electrostatic attraction can occur between the like-charged particles, where charge Z ≫ 1 (in terms of elementary charge) and radius R > 0, whereas according to the literature, only repulsion is possible inside non-electrically neutral systems. We calculate the free energy of the charged particles of water inside a cluster and demonstrate that its minimum is when the interdroplet distance equals several Debye radii defined based on the light plasma component. The deepest minimum depth is in a cluster with close spatial packing of drops by type, in a face-centered cubic lattice, if almost all the electric charge of one sign is concentrated on the drops and that of the other sign is concentrated on the light compensation carriers of charge, where the charge moved by equilibrium carriers is rather small
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.4819717;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics of Plasmas
- Journal Volume
- 20
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. 083707-083707.5
- ISSN
- 1070-664X
- CODEN
- PHPAEN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45041657
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CARRIERS; CHARGED PARTICLES; DISTANCE; ELECTRIC CHARGES; EQUILIBRIUM; FCC LATTICES; FREE ENERGY; PLASMA WAVES; POISSON EQUATION; WATER
- Descriptors DEC
- CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CUBIC LATTICES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY; EQUATIONS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; KINETIC EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
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- Notes
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