The Effect of Transport on Multi-Ion shocks

Shock-driven multi-ion implosions are of importance both in astrophysical scenarios and in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) efforts. The transport processes that occur in these implosions are presently being studied numerically and experimentally and the effect of transport in plasmas with multiple ion species remains an open research area. In this work, we use the multi-fluid capabilities of Gkeyll to simulate shocks with transport effects for two-fluid (single ion and electron species) and three-fluid (two ion and electron species) plasmas. Results of shocks will be presented and compared with experimental data in weakly-coupled and moderately-coupled regimes.