pages 101-104
DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2006.TurbulHeatMassTransf.80
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Martin A. Fink
Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85471 Garching, Germany
H. Hofner
Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85471 Garching, Germany
M. Kretschmer
Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85471 Garching, Germany
Gregor Ego Morfill
Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85471 Garching, Germany
S. Ratynskaia
Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85471 Garching, Germany
K. Tarantik
Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85471 Garching, Germany
M. Thoma
Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85471 Garching, Germany
Vladimir Evgenievich Fortov
Joint Institute of High Temperatures RAS, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Oleg F. Petrov
Joint Institute of High Temperatures RAS, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
A. Zobnin
Institute for High Energy Densities Russian Academy of Science, Izhorskaya 13/19, 127412 Moscow, Russia
ABSTRAKT
Investigation of fluids at the most fundamental level, the kinetic level, is not possible. Complex plasmas can serve here as a model system. This is due to the fact that one of its components can be visualised individually and the particle motion can be tracked. Complex plasmas consist of ions, electrons, charged microparticles and neutral gas. The microparticles − also called dust particles − are of some micrometer size. In our experiments we study such fluids at the kinetic level.