Electronic transport coefficients for dense partially degenerate plasma mixtures*

In this talk, we derive electronic transport coefficients for dense, partially degenerate plasmas based on the extension of a new multiphysics, conservative, entropic Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model [1,2] to include quantum effects for the electron species. We compare to the commonly used model Lee and More [3], which uses a simpler Krook model and neglects electron-electron collisions. We also discuss the role of the ionization state ⟨Z⟩ in the validity of these expansions.

[1] Haack et al. (2017): 10.1007/s10955-017-1824-9
[2] Haack et al. (2017): 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.063310
[3] Lee and More (1983): 10.1063/1.864744