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A kinetic ion induced electron emission (IIEE) model for general applications is developed to obtain the emitted electron energy spectrum for a distribution of ion impacts on a metallic surface. We assume an ionization cascade mechanism and…

We develop ion-ion pair potentials for Al, Na and K for densities and temperatures relevant to the warm-dense-matter (WDM) regime. Furthermore, we emphasize non-equilibrium states where the ion temperature $T_i$ differs from the electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 Louis Harbour , M. W. Chandre Dharma-wardana , Dennis D. Klug , Laurent J. Lewis

Considering high-temperature heating, the equations of transient heat conduction model require an adaptation, i.e. the dependence of thermophysical parameters of the model on the temperature is to be identified for each specific material to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Zhukov Petr , Glushchenko Anton , Fomin Andrey

Many thermo-mechanical processes, such as thermal expansion and stress relaxation, originate at the atomistic scale. We develop a sequential multiscale approach to study thermally stressed superelastic polyimide to explore these effects.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-30 Jerome Samuel S , Puneet Kumar Patra , Md Rushdie Ibne Islam

The present paper is a concluding part of the series [N.B. Volkov and A.M. Iskoldsky: 1; 2; [1], [2]]. Here on the basis of the results of the above papers the experiments on the electric explosion in conductors have been discussed and the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 N B Volkov , A M Iskoldsky

Effective tokamak disruption mitigation is crucial for ensuring the safety and integrity of fusion power reactors. Accurate collisional-radiative (CR) modeling of a radiative plasma is a critical component in predictive disruption…

The understanding of the halo current properties during disruptions is key to design and operate large scale tokamaks in view of the large thermal and electromagnetic loads that they entail. For the first time, we present a fully…

The low temperature electrical behavior of adjacent silicide/Si Schottky contacts with or without dopant segregation is investigated. The electrical characteristics are very well modeled by thermionic-field emission for non-segregated…

This work presents a new plasma cooling curve that is calculated using the SPEX package. We compare our cooling rates to those in previous works, and implement the new cooling function in the grid-adaptive framework `AMRVAC'. Contributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-26 K. M. Schure , D. Kosenko , J. S. Kaastra , R. Keppens , J. Vink

A control oriented, lumped parameter model for the tokamak transformer including the slow flux penetration in the plasma (skin effect transformer model) is presented. The model does not require detailed or explicit information about plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. A. Romero , J. -M. Moret , S. Coda , F. Felici , I. Garrido

We develop a thermodynamical model of fermionic dark matter halos at finite temperature. Statistical equilibrium states may be justified by a process of violent collisionless relaxation in the sense of Lynden-Bell or from a collisional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Arc plasmas have promising applications in many fields. To explore their property is of interest. This paper presents detailed pressure-based finite volume simulation of argon arc. In the modeling, the whole cathode region is coupled to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-17 Xiaoliang Wang

Accurate prediction of electron temperature ($T_{\rm e}$) in non-equilibrium {plasma} flows is critical, yet hampered by inadequate models for electron heating from vibrationally excited states. Prior models often relied on ad-hoc scaling…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Felipe Martin Rodriguez Fuentes , Bernard Parent

This contribution discusses challenges in the modeling of formation of the warm dense matter (WDM) state in solids exposed to femtosecond X-ray free-electron laser pulses. It is based upon our previously reported code XTANT (X-ray-induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-03 Nikita Medvedev

In the laser processing of glass, a ~50-1000 $\mu$m-thick layer of glass is heated to a high temperature by the laser beam. Due to the shallow depth of this hot layer, the infrared emission and absorption spectra may deviate from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-15 Grigory Kolesov

The heat transport in heavy-doped n-GaAs has been investigated at temperatures T=300 K and 77 K using the irradiation of the metal-semiconductor contact by modulated CO_{2}-laser radiation. It is shown this approach giving an opportunity to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ya. Shul'man , N. A. Mordovets , I. N. Kotel'nikov

We present a mesoscopic model for thermoelectric phenomena in terms of an interacting particle system, a lattice electron gas dynamics that is a suitable extension of the standard simple exclusion process. We concentrate on electronic heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Maes , Maarten H. van Wieren

We estimate the thermalization time in two colliding shock waves holographic model of heavy-ion collisions. For this purpose we model the process by the Vaidya metric with a horizon defined by the trapped surface location. We consider two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-16 Irina Ya. Aref'eva

In electrostatic simulations of MAST plasma at electron-gyroradius scales, using the local flux-tube gyrokinetic code GS2 with adiabatic ions, we find that the long-time saturated electron heat flux (the level most relevant to energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 G J Colyer , A A Schekochihin , F I Parra , C M Roach , M A Barnes , Y-c Ghim , W Dorland

A switching-off process very similar to those in real high-voltage self-blast circuit-breakers is emulated in a model chamber to study the arc properties by optical emission spectroscopy. The arc is operated in a chamber filled with SF$_6$…