critical_velocity

Source: R/wilkie_sd.R

Function to calculate the criticl velocity, eq. 2.1 of Wilkie 2018, https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01934v2.

critical_velocity(n_e, T_e_eV, ions)

Arguments

n_e

numeric Electron density.
T_e_eV

numeric Electron temperaure in eV.
ions

data frame with information on all ion species, containing columns "n" (ion density), "A" (ion mass number), and "Z" (ion charge number)

Value

numeric critical velocity