Thermal heat flux in a plasma for arbitrary collisionality
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 24 (8) , 1442-1446
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863564
Abstract
The thermal heat flux along a uniform magnetic field due to a temperature gradient is calculated using a Monte Carlo solution to the Fokker–Planck equation. This numerical solution, which is computed for a particular electron temperature profile, is valid for arbitrary mean‐free‐path, λmfp. The calculated heat flux makes a smooth transition between the analytic expressions for the short and long λmfp limits.Keywords
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