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The flow formed in the neighborhood of the discontinuity intersection point when shock waves collide at a nonzero angle is studied. The investigation can be directly applied to problems of shock wave interaction in the interplanetary plasma [9–12]. In magnetohydrodynamics the nature of the flow and its investigation are much more complex than in gas dynamics because of the greater number of possible waves and governing parameters.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 132–143, May–June, 1991.
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Barmin, A.A., Pushkar, E.A. Shock wave intersection in magnetohydrodynamics. Fluid Dyn 26, 428–437 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01059016
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