Study of Radiation Transfer, Level and Electron Kinetics in a 1D Steady Shock in Atomic Hydrogen

In this paper we study non equilibrium level kinetics in a steady shock wave propagating in pure hydrogen plasma. The hydrodynamic description of the shock wave is achieved using the steady state continuity equations taking into account radiative losses into the energy equation. Spectral properties of the (H, H+, e?) plasma have been evaluated using a recently developed numerical model from the level population output of an advanced collisional-radiative model which solves a Boltzmann equation for the non-equilibrium EEDF.