HEDS Poster

[HEDSp-08] Particle-in-cell simulations of shockwaves in plasma

*Jinyuan Dun^1,2, Justin Ray Angus², William Farmer², Alex Friedman², Vasily Geyko², Debojyoti Ghosh², Frank R Graziani², David P Grote², David Larson², Anthony J. Link², George B. Zimmerman², Shinsuke Fujioka¹ (1. Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

In this research, we present fully kinetic results of shockwaves in plasmas ranging from Z=1 to Z=10. The simulations are performed using the energy- and charge-conserving particle-in-cell algorithm in PICNIC. In contrast to some theories for shocks in plasmas with Z>5, where the classical electron viscosity can exceed that of the ions, the electron heating in the viscous sublayer is insignificant compared to that for the ions for all values of Z considered.