| Abstract: | The onset of a nonequilibrium distribution function in a plasma produced by laser radiation at fluxes I - 1014 W/cm2 is considered. The model employed takes consistent account of the nonlocality of the electron distribution at large density and temperature gradients, the demaxwellizing effect of the external hf field of the laser, and the nondiffusion of the transport in the high-energy part of the electron-distribution spectrum. Numerical solution of the corresponding kinetic equations shows that establishment of a nonequilibrium electron distribution in the corona suppresses the heat transport substantially. Good agreement is obtained between the kinetic value of the heat flux and the phenomenological value needed to reconcile the hydrodynamicsimulation results with the experimental data.Quantum Radiophysics Division, Lebedev Physics Institute. Translated from Preprint No. 179 of the Ledebev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1989. |
