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A Fokker-Planck Code for Laser-Produced Plasmas
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
  • Zhao Bin
  • Yalin Dong, The University of Akron, Main Campus
  • Zheng Jian
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Abstract

A Fokker-Planck code is developed based upon Epperlein’s scheme [Laser Part. Beams 12, 257 (1994)] for the investigation of laser-produced plasmas in relevance to inertial confinement fusion. The equations are integrated implicitly by the time-splitting method. The test problems are simulated to show the versatility of the code. The comparisons among our computational heat flux and the classical Spitzer-H¨arm (SH) transport model and non-local transport models have been presented. The result shows that the non-local model of heat flux is in reasonable agreement with the FP simulation in overdense region and invalid in the hot underdense plasmas.

Citation Information
Zhao Bin, Yalin Dong and Zheng Jian. "A Fokker-Planck Code for Laser-Produced Plasmas" Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol. 112 (2008) p. 55305
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yalin_dong/26/