Theory of Laminar Collisionless Shocks
- 1 November 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 27 (18), 1189-1192
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.27.1189
Abstract
A theory is derived which qualitatively and quantitatively explains the similarity between numerical simulations for electrostatic and perpendicular magnetic collisionless shocks for zero ion temperature and no anomalous resistance.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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