Self-Consistent Theory of a Collisionless Resistive Shock
- 13 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (11), 659-662
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.659
Abstract
This paper presents a self-consistent collisionless theory for turbulent, low-Mach-number resistive shocks. Both analytic predictions of shock structure and more detailed numerical solutions are in excellent agreement with experimental observations.Keywords
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