1994 Volume 63 Issue 3 Pages 979-983
Relaxation of ions in a uniform electric field is analyzed by using the theory of stochastic process. Ion-neutral interaction is assumed to be Maxwellian. The drift velocity, the mean energy, and the longitudinal and transverse diffusion coefficients thus obtained agree with the exact solution of the moment equations of the Boltzmann equation.
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