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Add function(s) for continuum lowering

Open lemmatum opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

There some equations for approximating atomic energy level shifts due to continuum lowering - we should add these. I believe David Salzmann's Atomic Physics in Hot Plasmas has some simple equations which we could start with. Such functions would be handy especially for dense plasmas.

lemmatum avatar Dec 20 '17 09:12 lemmatum

Section 3.2 in Salzmann (pg 58) is where continuum lowering and line shifts starts.

lemmatum avatar Dec 20 '17 09:12 lemmatum

Paper by B. J. B. Crowley which provides a good reviews on Stewartt-Pyatt, plus accounts for relaxation effects which may have been seen in relatively recent continuum lowering measurements.

CHEMEOS paper has a different continuum lowering model, which is used by some codes at LANL. It includes changes to the statistical weights within a charge state.

lemmatum avatar Nov 07 '18 15:11 lemmatum