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Nonstationary shock waves in a low-density plasma

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Numerical methods are used to study nonstationary collisionless shocks in a plasma propagating at some arbitrary angle to the unperturbed magnetic field in cases where the electrical conductivity and electron thermal conductivity have finite values.

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    G. I. Dudnikova

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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 3, pp. 10–15, May–June, 1973.

The author thanks Yu. A. Berezin for valuable discussions.

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Dudnikova, G.I. Nonstationary shock waves in a low-density plasma. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 14, 302–306 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00850939

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