Effect of Resonant Photoionization in Non-Local Thermodynamical Equilibrium Plasmas

Based on the detailed configuration accounting model(DCA), a method is developed to calculate the rate of the resonant photoionization(RP) in the average atom(AA) model. Using this method, the RP rates are calculated for an average ion and compared with DCA calculation. The comparison shows the reasonableness of the proposed method. The RP process is included in the AA rate equations and the numerical results show that RP can cause an additional ionization up to 10% or so in some cases.