  The interaction of lasers with plasmas very often leads to nonlocal transport
conditions, where the classical hydrodynamic model fails to describe important
microscopic physics related to highly mobile particles. In this study we
analyze and further propose a modification of the Albritton-
Williams-Bernstein-Swartz collision operator Phys. Rev. Lett 57, 1887 (1986)
for the nonlocal electron transport under conditions relevant to ICF. The
electron distribution function provided by this modification exhibits some very
desirable properties when compared to the full Fokker- Planck operator in the
local diffusive regime, and also performs very well when benchmarked against
Vlasov-Fokker-Planck and collisional PIC codes in the nonlocal transport
regime, where we find that the effect of the electric field via the nonlocal
Ohms law is an essential ingredient in order to capture the electron kinetics
properly.
