Testing nonlocal models of electron thermal conduction for magnetic and inertial confinement fusion applications
Testing nonlocal models of electron thermal conduction for magnetic and inertial confinement fusion applications
Three models for nonlocal electron thermal transport are here compared against Vlasov-Fokker-Planck (VFP) codes to assess their accuracy in situations relevant to both inertial fusion hohlraums and tokamak scrape-off layers. The models tested are (i) a moment-based approach using an eigenvector integral closure (EIC) originally developed by Ji, Held and …