Consistent description of kinetics and hydrodynamics of dusty plasma

Abstract

A consistent statistical description of kinetics and hydrodynamics of dusty plasma is proposed based on the Zubarev nonequilibrium statistical operator method. For the case of partial dynamics the nonequilibrium statistical operator and the generalized transport equations for a consistent description of kinetics of dust particles and hydrodynamics of electrons, ions and neutral atoms are obtained. In the approximation of weakly nonequilibrium process a spectrum of collective excitations of dusty plasma is investigated in the hydrodynamic limit.