Neoclassical transport: Difference between revisions

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The main goal of Neoclassical transport theory is to provide a closed set of equations for the time evolution of these moments, for each particle species. Since the determination of any moment requieres knowledge of the next order moment, this requires truncating the set of moments (''closure'' of the set of equations).
The main goal of Neoclassical transport theory is to provide a closed set of equations for the time evolution of these moments, for each particle species. Since the determination of any moment requieres knowledge of the next order moment, this requires truncating the set of moments (''closure'' of the set of equations).
<ref>T.J.M. Boyd and J.J. Sanderson, ''The physics of plasmas'', Cambridge University Press (2003) ISBN 0521459125</ref>


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