On the coupling of collisional radiative models and Boltzmann equation for atomic transient hydrogen plasmas

Abstract

Abstract. Collisional-radiative model for atomic hydrogen has been coupled selfconsistently with the Boltzmann equation for electron kinetics to study the role of nonequilibrium electron distributions on the energy level kinetics. In particular, the role of second kind and electron-electron collisions in affecting both time dependent electron energy distributions and excited state population densities has been investigated.