Collisional Radiative Average Atom Code With Relativistic Atomic Model

Over the last four decades, the collisional radiative average atom models have been successfully used in plasma physics, as code XSN of W. Lokke and W. Grasberger of 1977 with n-splitting and the codes of G. Faussurier, C. Blancard et al. of 2009 and Balazs F. Rozsnyai of 2010 with nl-splitting. But it was necessary to compute more precise results of atomic and radiative plasma properties, so it has been a milestone to construct a relativistic screened hydrogenic atomic model with ATLANTE supercomputer. ATMED CR has been developed with the aforementioned atomic model considering nlj-splitting of matter structure and is nowadays the most advanced collisional radiative average atom code in Atomic Physics, valid for wide ranges of thermodynamic conditions and for all the elements from hydrogen to mercury. The purpose of this book is to describe the computation of plasma properties with ATMED CR and to check them with experimental measurements and theoretical work previously done by other collisional radiative models. The book should be especially useful to professionals in Quantum Mechanics, Plasma Physics or to libraries of universities for students interested in editing new theses.