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Physics of ionizing shock waves in magnetic fields

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1982, Physics Reports

https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-1573(82)90040-0
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Introduction 3 10. Shock structure and ionization relaxation 45 2. Formulation of the problem. Basic equations 5 11. Formation of a magnetic structure of a GD shock pro-3. Magnetic structures of ionizing shock waves 10 pagating across the magnetic field 48 4. Evolutionarity conditions and the number of boundary 12. Magnetic structures of normal ionizing shock waves 54 conditions for ionizing shock waves 19 13. Self-similar piston problem 59 5. Precursor ionization. Ionization stability 26 14. Plasma heating in normal ionizing shock waves 64 6. The additional relation and magnetic structures of shock 15. Normal ionizing shock waves. Numerical simulation of waves 31 flow ahead of a conducting piston 72 7. Limiting regimes 34 16. Switch-off shock waves 79 8. Transverse shock waves (qualitative theory) 37 References 83 9. Shock structure of a transverse ionizing shock wave 41

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