Abstract
The distribution function which given by Grad cannot be used to describe the ionospheric ion velocity distribution due to the larger anisotropic temperature appears in the high-latitude ionosphere. In this article, based on the Boltzmann equation, the relaxation collision model (RCM) was used to substitute the Boltzmann collision integration, and a non-Maxwell ion velocity distribution function with the 16-moments approximation for the bi-Maxwell distribution was given, and the ion transport equation with the 16-moments approximation was also derived and solved. Moreover, the ion velocity distribution, the solution of transport equation and the incoherent scattering spectra with the 13-moments and 16-moments approximation for the relaxation collision model were simulated, analyzed and compared. The research shows that compared with the 13-moments approximation, the 16-moments approximation with the bi-Maxwell distribution is more suitable to describe the characteristics of the anisotropic temperature ion distribution in the high-latitude ionosphere.
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