This article presents a nontrivial behavior of charged particles fluxes in electronegative 2-D plasmas. It is shown that in 2-D multicomponent plasmas, the ambipolarity of fluxes is violated, i.e., the algebraic sum of all fluxes turned out nonzero. It also turned out that the total current streamlines are closed circuit, which means that the current in plasma is a vortex.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2562-2563
JournalIEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume39
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

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