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Shock jump conditions for an anisotropic plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Barbara Abraham-Shrauner
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Division, Ames Research Center, NASA, Moffett Field, California

Abstract

The jump conditions for finite discontinuities in a collisionless plasma are derived in the Chew—Goldberger—Low approximation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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