Abstract When a shock passes through an ionized plasma, a question exists about how much of the shock energy should go to the ions and how much should go to the electrons. Until recently, we have used the simplest possible model (based on Zel’dovich and Raizer [1], dumping all of the shock energy into the ions and ignoring the electronic fluid completely. However, we have become aware of work from the early 2000’s by Velikovich et al. [2] that has convinced us that a more sophisticated approach can be worthwhile in problems that involve ionization of elements with atomic number (Z) as low as five or six. We describe an approach for splitting the shock energy according to the values of ion and electron viscosity. We examine several calculations to explore the difference between our previous approach and our new one. Finally, we conclude with a brief discussion of when ion/electron shock heat splitting will matter and when it will not, along with some ideas for future research.

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电离气体中离子和电子之间的分裂激波加热

摘要 当激波通过电离等离子体时，存在一个问题，即有多少激波能量应该流向离子，多少应该流向电子。直到最近，我们还使用了最简单的模型（基于 Zel'dovich 和 Raizer [1]，将所有冲击能量倾倒到离子中并完全忽略电子流体。然而，我们已经意识到 2000 年代初期的工作Velikovich 等人 [2] 使我们确信，在涉及原子序数 (Z) 低至 5 或 6 的元素电离的问题中，更复杂的方法是值得的。我们描述了一种根据离子和电子粘度的值。我们检查了几个计算来探索我们以前的方法和我们的新方法之间的区别。最后，