Motion of Charged Particles in a Homogeneous Reacting Medium with a One-dimensional Geometry

Abstract

We study the approach to steady state of a system described by the Klein-Kramers equation with a COnstant source, to see how the source structure effects disappear away from the source. We link this to some earlier work on non-hydrodynamic effects in time-of-flight swarm experiments to show how this theory may be applied to the analysis of steady-state Townsend swarm experiments.