Physics of Collisionless Shocks: Space Plasma Shock Waves

by André Balogh, Rudolf A Treumann, Rudolf A. Treumann

The present book provides a contemporary systematic treatment of shock waves in high-temperature collisionless plasmas as are encountered in near Earth space and in Astrophysics. It consists of two parts. Part I develops the complete theory of shocks in dilute hot plasmas under the assumption of absence of collisions among the charged particles when the interaction is mediated solely by the self-consistent electromagnetic fields. Such shocks are naturally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461460980
• ISBN13: 9781461460985
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"