ELECTRON-DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS IN LASER-EMBEDDED PLASMAS

被引:21
作者
PORSHNEV, P [1 ]
FERRANTE, G [1 ]
ZARCONE, M [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV SIENA,DIPARTIMENTO FIS,I-53100 SIENA,ITALY
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 1993年 / 48卷 / 03期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevE.48.2081
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
A detailed study is reported concerning the evolution of the electron distribution function for a laser-embedded fully ionized plasma, taking into account the inverse bremsstrahlung and the electron-electron (e-e) collisions. Whenever possible, an effort is made to provide an analytic treatment of the problem, which is corroborated by numerical analysis as well. An approximate, analytic self-similar distribution function has been found for the case when e-e collisions are not negligible, and the heating equation has been solved numerically.
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页码:2081 / 2086
页数:6
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