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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Irina Potapenko, Stanislav Karpov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 9 | September 2023 | Pages 2450-2458
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2189511
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The paper is devoted to the numerical study of solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau kinetic equations for distribution functions with typical length such that , where stands for the Debye radius. It is also assumed that the Knudsen number , where denotes the mean free path of electrons. We use the standard model of plasma of electrons with a spatially homogeneous neutralizing background of motionless heavy ions. We study numerically the one-dimensional (1D) in space kinetic equation with the two-dimensional in velocity space (in three-dimensional spherical coordinates with axial symmetry) Landau collisional operator for small and different . The numerical results are presented and compared with appropriate solutions obtained earlier for the simplified BGK model. The results confirm numerically the existence of high-frequency oscillations of the electric field, which slowly decline due to collisions.