Properties of mass-loading shocks. II - Magnetohydrodynamics

Physics – Fluid Dynamics

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Giacobini-Zinner Comet, Halley'S Comet, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Shock Wave Interaction, Bow Waves, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Rankine-Hugoniot Relation

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The one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics of mass-loading shocks is examined. These shocks, which are distinct from MHD shocks of classical nonreacting fluid dynamics and of combustion theory and which are characterized by the addition of mass within the shock transition, are to be found at comets and, depending upon circumstances, at nonmagnetized and weakly magnetized planets such as Venus and Mars. A completely general mass-loading form of the Hugoniot equation is derived, and some of the most important differences between mass-loading and nonreacting classical MHD shocks are identified. Two new types of MHD shocks are described which have no classical MHD analogues.

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