A nonuniform shock wave subjected to an oblique magnetic field

Summary

A family of exact solutions for the one dimensional, unsteady, non-isentropic flow of an ideal, inviscid, perfectly conducting, compressible fluid subjected to an oblique magnetic field, is connected by a nonuniform shock wave to gas at rest in which the density distribution is nonuniform. The method of solution is inverse in the sense that the shock path is determined by the usual jump conditions, and then the density distribution in front of the shock is obtained in parametric form in terms of the equation of the shock locus.