Thermal heat flux in a plasma for arbitrary collisionality
Abstract
The thermal heat flux along a uniform magnetic field due to a temperature gradient is calculated using a Monte Carlo solution to the Fokker-Planck equation. This numerical solution, which is computed for a particular electron temperature profile, is valid for arbitrary mean-free-path, λmfp. The calculated heat flux makes a smooth transition between the analytic expressions for the short and long λmfp limits.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- August 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.863564
- Bibcode:
- 1981PhFl...24.1442K
- Keywords:
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- Collisional Plasmas;
- Heat Flux;
- Plasma Heating;
- Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction;
- Thermal Plasmas;
- Electron Energy;
- Fokker-Planck Equation;
- Mean Free Path;
- Monte Carlo Method;
- Temperature Distribution;
- Thermal Conductivity;
- Plasma Physics