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Ion motion in a plasma is treated by the equations of compressible fluid flow. The plasma-sheath boundary is identified as a closed Mach surface thus demonstrating that the Bohm criterion applies to the component of ion velocity normal to the sheath edge.
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Stangeby et al. (1970) studied this question.
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