Transport properties of boron and aluminum

Abstract

Transport cross sections and collision integrals are tabulated for a wide range of energies and temperatures for the interactions B–B and Al–Al. For aluminum, a semiclassical approximation was used to determine the scattering phase shifts from which the transport cross sections were calculated. For boron, the smaller reduced mass and the deep potential wells required the phase shifts at lower energies to be determined from a numerical solution of the time-independent Schroedinger equation; the semiclassical approximation was used at higher energies where the two methods agree. The variations of the collision integrals for viscosity and diffusion are presented graphically as a function of temperature. The results are applied to estimate the transport properties of gallium.