Ion diffusion at interfaces in hot plasmas

There are many laboratory applications in which it is important to know how fast two hot, ionized materials mix across an initially sharp interface. The speed of this process is regulated by the interdiffusion coefficient for the species involved. In a previous work, a theoretical method for calculating the interdiffusion coefficient in a Binary Ionic Mixture (classical ions in a uniform, neutralizing background) was described and found to give excellent agreement with Molecular Dynamics estimates. The purpose of this report is to show how these results may be applied to a model of the plasma interface, including electric field effects, to give a good description of the mixing across it