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A reduced kinetic method (RKM) with a first-principle collision operator is introduced in a 1D2V planar geometry and implemented in a computationally inexpensive code to investigate non-local ion heat transport in multi-species plasmas. The…

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A reduced kinetic method (RKM) for describing nonlocal transport in magnetized plasmas is derived from first principles and considered in a 1D3V geometry. Unlike standard nonlocal closures, this RKM uses the Fokker-Planck collision…

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We present a data-driven framework for the modeling of nonlocal heat transport in plasmas using a nonlocal theory informed neural network trained on kinetic Particle-in-Cell simulations that span both local and nonlocal regimes. The model…

Laser produced high-energy-density plasmas may contain strong magnetic fields that affect the energy transport, which can be nonlocal. Models which describe the magnetized nonlocal transport are formally complicated and based on many…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 D. Del Sorbo , J. -L. Feugeas , Ph. Nicolaï , M. Olazabal-Loumé , B. Dubroca , V. Tikhonchuk

Distortions in the electron distribution function driven by intense temperature gradients critically influence the generation and evolution of heat flux and magnetic fields in plasmas under the condition of inertial confinement fusion.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Z. H. Chen , Z. Q. Zhao , X. H. Yang , L. R. Li , B. Zeng , Z. Li , B. H. Xu , G. B. Zhang , H. H. Ma , M. Tang , Y. Y. Ma , H. Xu , F. Q. Shao , J. Zhang

Coupling of electron heat conduction and magnetic field takes significant effects in inertial confinement fusion (ICF). As the nonlocal models for electron heat conduction have been developed for modeling kinetic effects on heat flux in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Xinyu Zhu , Wenqiang Yuan , Yusen Wang , Zhipeng Zhang , Xianxu Jin , Zhonghai Zhao , Bin Qiao

A system of nonlocal electron-transport equations for small perturbations in a magnetized plasma is derived using the systematic closure procedure of V. Yu. Bychenkov et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4405 (1995). Solution to the linearized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Brantov , V. Yu. Bychenkov , W. Rozmus , C. E. Capjack , R. Sydora

Recent efforts to include kinetic effects in fluid simulations of plasmas have been very promising. Concerning collisionless magnetic reconnection, it has been found before that damping of the pressure tensor to isotropy leads to good…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Florian Allmann-Rahn , Thomas Trost , Rainer Grauer

Recent theory has demonstrated a novel physics regime for magnetic reconnection in high-energy-density plasmas where the magnetic field is advected by heat flux via the Nernst effect. Here we elucidate the physics of the electron…

The study of heat transport in micro/nanoscale structures due to their application, especially in Nanoelectronics, is a matter of interest. In other words, the precise simulation of the temperature distribution inside the transistors is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Roya Baratifarimani , Zahra Shomali

We present a simple method to incorporate nonlocal effects on the Nernst advection of magnetic fields down steep temperature gradients, and demonstrate its effectiveness in a number of inertial fusion scenarios. This is based on assuming…

By using a non-local model, fluid simulations can capture kinetic effects in the parallel electron heat-flux better than is possible using flux limiters in the usual diffusive models. Non-local and diffusive models are compared using a test…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 John Omotani , Ben Dudson

It has been observed in many numerical simulations, experiments and from various theoretical treatments that heat transport in one-dimensional systems of interacting particles cannot be described by the phenomenological Fourier's law. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-12 Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu , Aritra Kundu

In order to improve the presently used ad hoc flux limiter treatment of parallel heat flux transport in edge plasma fluid codes we consider here a generalized version of the Fourier law implementing a non-local kernel for the heat flux…

Relativistic heat transport in electron-two-temperature plasmas with density gradients has been investigated. The Legendre expansion analysis of relativistically modified kinetic equations shows that strong inhibition of heat flux appears…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mitsuru Honda

We present simulations of heat flow relevant to gaspipe experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to investigate kinetic effects on transport phenomena. D2 and neopentane (C5H12) filled targets are used to study the laser preheat…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 R. Y. Lau , D. J. Strozzi , M. Sherlock , M. Weis , A. S. Joglekar , W. A. Farmer , Y. Shi , J. R. Cary

We study the non equilibrium statistical properties of a one dimensional hard-rod fluid undergoing collisions and subject to a spatially non uniform Gaussian heat-bath and periodic potential. The system is able to sustain finite currents…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-25 Fabio Cecconi , Giulio Costantini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We discuss the concept of local temperature for quantum systems driven out of equilibrium by ac pumps showing explicitly that it is the correct indicator for heat flow. We also show that its use allows for a generalization of the Wiedemann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 Alvaro Caso , Liliana Arrachea , Gustavo S. Lozano

How momentum, energy, and magnetic fields are transported in the presence of macroscopic gradients is a fundamental question in plasma physics. Answering this question is especially challenging for weakly collisional, magnetized plasmas,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Prakriti Pal Choudhury , Archie F. A. Bott

The non-local heat transport of hot electrons during high-intensity lasers interaction with plasmas can preheat the fuel and limit the heat flow in inertial confinement fusion. It increases the entropy of the fuel and decreases the final…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Z. H. Chen , X. H. Yang , G. B. Zhang , Y. Y. Ma , H. Xu , S. X. Luan , J. Zhang
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