The viscosity of charged particles in the weakly ionized plasma with power-law distributions

Abstract: We study the viscosity of light charged particles in weakly ionized plasma with the power-law q-distributions by using the Boltzmann equation of transport and the motion equation of hydrodynamics. The nonequilibrium plasma is considered to be space inhomogeneous and without magnetic field. We derive the expressions of the viscosity coefficients of the electrons and the ions in the q-distributed plasma, including the first and the second viscosity coefficients respectively. It is shown that these new viscosity coefficients depend strongly on the q-parameters, and when we take the limit of q to 1, they perfectly return to those in the plasma with a Maxwellian distribution. The discussions presented in this paper can also be applied to the plasmas with the kappa-distributions.