Calculation of one-dimensional plasma flows with allowance for the kinetics of ion collisions

The influence of kinetic effects on the generation of line X radiation duri ng the spherical implosion of a laser corona plasma with two ion species is studied under the conditions prevailing in experiments with thin-wall sphe rical targets in the lskra-5 laser facility of the All-Russia Research Inst itute of Experimental Physics (Sarov, Russia). Kinetic processes occurring in a multicharged plasma are investigated using a specially devised code fo r solving one-dimensional Landau equations for a nondegenerate multicompone nt plasma by the Monte Carlo method (the KIN-MC code). The code was develop ed using the quasineutral plasma approximation under the assumption that th e electron distribution function is locally equilibrium. The model equation s are presented, the scheme of numerical solution is described, and the cal culated results are discussed. (C) 2001 MAIK "Nauka/Interperiodica".