Structure and evolution of time-dependent intermediate shocks
- 6 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (1) , 56-59
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.56
Abstract
A quantitative description of time-dependent intermediate shocks is formulated using the Cohen-Kulsrud-Burgers equations. In noncoplanar Riemann problems, time-dependent 2→3 intermediate shocks evolve in time as a localized self-similar structure whose strength decreases as 1/ √t , and whose width expands as √t . Time-dependent intermediate shocks offer a way of solving the noncoplanar MHD Riemann problem.Keywords
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