Abstract
The phenomena related to shock waves and other dicontinuous flows in astrophysical plasma are so numerous that the study of MHD discontinuities on their own is of independent interest for space science.
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(2006). Discontinuous Flows in a MHD Medium. In: Plasma Astrophysics, Part I. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 340. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48427-3_17
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