Structure of perpendicular shocks in collisionless plasma
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 26 (9), 2742-2753
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864468
Abstract
The macrostructure of perpendicular shocks in the supercritical regime is investigated theoretically. The coupling between the shock precursor (foot region) associated with reflected ions and the magnetic ramp associated with electron Ohmic heating is analyzed using a model in which the ions are treated as a multifluid and the electrons as a massless fluid. The results are found to be in good agreement with a number of features exhibited by recent numerical simulations of perpendicular shocks, including the morphology of the reflected‐gyrating ion stream, the presence of potential and magnetic field overshoots, and the Mach number dependence of the shock structure.Keywords
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