Nonlocal heat transport by non-Maxwellian electrons
Abstract
The generalization of the Spitzer-Harm solution to steep density and temperature gradients requires the computation of the appropriate non-Maxwellian isotropic part of the electron distribution. Analytic solutions for a steady state, high-Z plasma were developed employing the diffusion approximation. Applications of these solutions include computation of the resulting heat flux, thermal smoothing of transverse temperature perturbations, and modification of linear heat flow instabilities.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Anomalous Absorption Conf
- Pub Date:
- March 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984anab.conf....6S
- Keywords:
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- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Electron Distribution;
- Heat Transfer;
- Isotropy;
- Plasma Physics;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Temperature Gradients;
- Heat Flux;
- Kinetic Equations;
- Legendre Functions;
- Plasma Physics