Nonlocal heat transport due to steep temperature gradients
Abstract
By comparison with fully kinetic Fokker-Planck calculations, a nonlocal macroscopic formula has been derived for the thermal heat flux. This formula leads in a physically relevant way to the saturation and the delocalization of the heat flux. Its introduction in a fluid code is straightforward and gives to some extent results comparable with classical flux-limited transport calculations with f=0.1. However, it also describes a significant level of preheating.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.1664
- Bibcode:
- 1983PhRvL..51.1664L
- Keywords:
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- Heat Transmission;
- Laser Plasmas;
- Plasma Temperature;
- Temperature Gradients;
- Fokker-Planck Equation;
- Heat Flux;
- Plasma Physics;
- 52.25.Fi;
- 44.10.+i;
- 52.50.Jm;
- Transport properties;
- Heat conduction;
- Plasma production and heating by laser beams