Time-dependent closure relations for relativistic collisionless fluid equations

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Nov;82(5 Pt 2):056401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.056401. Epub 2010 Nov 1.

Abstract

Linear fluid equations for relativistic and collisionless plasmas are derived. Closure relations for the fluid equations are analytically computed from the relativistic Vlasov equation in the Fourier space (ω,k), where ω and k are the conjugate variables of time t and space x variables, respectively. The mathematical method used is based on the projection operator techniques and the continued fraction mathematical tools. The generalized heat flux and stress tensor are calculated for arbitrary parameter ω/kc where c is the speed of light, and for arbitrary relativistic parameter z=mc²/T , where m is the particle rest mass and T, the plasma temperature in energy units.