Dimensionless parameters (plasmapy.formulary.dimensionless)

Module of dimensionless plasma parameters.

These are especially important for determining what regime a plasma is in. (e.g., turbulent, quantum, collisional, etc.).

For example, plasmas at high (much larger than 1) Reynolds numbers are highly turbulent, while turbulence is negligible at low Reynolds numbers.

Functions

beta(T, n, B)	Compute the ratio of thermal pressure to magnetic pressure.
Debye_number(T_e, n_e)	Return the number of electrons within a sphere with a radius of the Debye length.
Hall_parameter(n, T, B, ion, particle[, ...])	Calculate the particle Hall parameter for a plasma.
Mag_Reynolds(U, L, sigma)	Compute the magnetic Reynolds number
quantum_theta(T, n_e)	Compare Fermi energy to thermal kinetic energy to check if quantum effects are important.
Reynolds_number(rho, U, L, mu)	Compute the Reynolds number.

Aliases

PlasmaPy provides short-named (alias) versions of the most common plasma functionality. These aliases are only given to functionality where there is a common lexicon in the community, for example plasma_frequency has the alias wp_. All aliases in PlasmaPy are denoted with a trailing underscore _.

betaH_(n, T, B, ion, particle[, ...])	Alias to Hall_parameter.
nD_(T_e, n_e)	Alias to Debye_number.
Re_(rho, U, L, mu)	Alias to Reynolds_number.
Rm_(U, L, sigma)	Alias to Mag_Reynolds.

Examples

Plasma beta in the solar atmosphere