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Nonlocal electron heat-flux

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Electron thermal conduction in a not quite collisional unmagnetlzed plasma is analysed. The failure of classical results for temperature scale-length up to 100 times larger than thermal mean-free-path for electron scattering, and large ion-charge number Z , is discussed. Recent results from a nonlocal model of conduction at large Z are reviewed. Closed form expressions for Braginskii's coefficients a ,/3 , y for Z =0(1) are derived. An extension of the nonlocal model for Z =0(1) is discussed.

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Electron thermal conduction in a not quite collisional unmagnetlzed plasma is analysed. The failure of classical results for temperature scale-length up to 100 times larger than thermal mean-free-path for electron scattering, and large ion-charge number Z , is discussed. Recent results from a nonlocal model of conduction at large Z are reviewed. Closed form expressions for Braginskii's coefficients a ,/3 , y for Z =0(1) are derived. An extension of the nonlocal model for Z =0(1) is discussed.

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Thermal conductionElectronHeat fluxMean free pathScatteringPhysicsElectron scatteringExtension (predicate logic)

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