On the Coupling of Collisional Radiative Models and Boltzmann Equation for Atomic Transient Hydrogen Plasmas

Abstract

Collisional-radiative model for atomic hydrogen has been coupled self-consistently with the Boltzmann equation for electron kinetics to study the role of nonequilibrium electron distributions on the energy level kinetics. In particular, the role of second kind and electron-electron collisions in affecting both time dependent electron energy distributions and excited state population densities has been investigated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA400895

Entities

People

  • G. Colonna
  • L. D. Pietanza
  • M. Capitelli

Organizations

  • University of Bari

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Collisions
  • Couplings
  • Dynamics
  • Electron Density
  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Energy Levels
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Free Electrons
  • Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrogen
  • Kinetics
  • Rarefied Gas Dynamics
  • Relaxation Time

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics