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
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Compute the ratio of thermal pressure to magnetic pressure. |
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Return the number of electrons within a sphere with a radius of the Debye length. |
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Calculate the |
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Compute the magnetic Reynolds number |
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Compare Fermi energy to thermal kinetic energy to check if quantum effects are important. |
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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 _
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