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Possibility of rarefaction shocks in anisotropic plasma

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The density variation in low-intensity shock waves propagated in an anisotropic rarefied plasma is studied on the basis of a system of relations in the Chew-Goldberger-Low magnetohydrodynamics (CGL MHD) approximation [1].

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    V. Yu. Zakharov

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 161–164, July–August, 1989.

The author is grateful to G. A. Lyubimov, A. G. Kulikovskii, A. A. Barmin, and I. S. Shishkin for discussing the results.

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Zakharov, V.Y. Possibility of rarefaction shocks in anisotropic plasma. Fluid Dyn 24, 625–628 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052429

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