Modern Methods in Collisional-Radiative Modeling of Plasmas

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ralchenko, Yuri (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 90
• Subjects: Physics.; Astrophysics.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Plasma Physics.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

This book provides a compact yet comprehensive overview of recent developments in collisional-radiative (CR) modeling of laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. It describes advances across the entire field, from basic considerations of model completeness to validation and verification of CR models to...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Balancing Detail and Completeness in Collisional-Radiative Models; S.B. Hansen
• 2 Self-Consistent Large-Scale Collisional-Radiative Modeling; C.J. Fontes, J. Colgan, J. Abdallah, Jr
• 3 Generalized Collisional-Radiative Model Using Screened Hydrogenic Levels; H.-K.Chung, S.B. Hansen, H.A. Scott
• 4 Collisional-Radiative Modeling for Radiation Hydrodynamics Codes; H.A. Scott
• 5 Average Atom Approximation in Non-LTE Level Kinetics; V.G. Novikov(+)
• 6 Collisional-Radiative Modeling and Interaction of Monochromatic X-rays with Matter; O. Peyrusse
• 7 Spectral Modeling in Astrophysics - the Physics of Non-Equilibrium Clouds; G.J. Ferland and R.J.R. Williams
• 8 Validation and Verification of Collisional-Radiative Codes; Yu. Ralchenko.