Fundamentals of Non-relativistic Collisionless Shock Physics: I. The Shock Problem
R. A. Treumann,
C. H. Jaroschek
Abstract:The problem of collisionless shocks is posed as the problem of understanding how in a completely collisionless streaming high-temperature plasma shocks can develop at all, forming discontinuous transition layers of thickness much less than any collisional mean free path length. The history of shock research is briefly reviewed. It is expressed that collisionless shocks as a realistic possibility of a state of matter have been realized not earlier than roughly half a centruy ago. The basic properties of collisi… Show more
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