Published October 14, 1991
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Journal article
Kinetic simulation of a collisional shock wave in a plasma
Creators
- 1. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve Saint Georges CEDEX (France)
- 2. Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Energie, 1650 Montee Sainte Julie, Case Postale 1020, Varennes, Quebec (Canada)
Description
The ion kinetic structure of a planar collisional shock front in a fully ionized plasma is investigated using a new Vlasov-Fokker-Planck code. The effects of ionic viscosity and ionic thermal conduction are found to be much larger than assumed in usual hydrodynamic plasma simulations with classical transport coefficients. This might have consequences on the numerical modeling of inertial-confinement fusion targets
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 67
- Journal Issue
- 16
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 2143-2146
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23010186
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- BOLTZMANN-VLASOV EQUATION; COLLISIONAL PLASMA; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT; ION-ION COLLISIONS; KINETICS; SHOCK WAVES; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL DATA; THERMAL CONDUCTION; USES; VISCOSITY
- Descriptors DEC
- COLLISIONS; CONFINEMENT; DATA; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; INFORMATION; ION COLLISIONS; NUMERICAL DATA; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLASMA; PLASMA CONFINEMENT