Shocks and Discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics) - References

References

The original research on MHD shock waves can be found in the following papers.

• Herlofson, N. "Magneto-Hydrodynamic Waves in a Compressible Fluid Conductor", Nature, 1950, 165, 1020-1021.
• De Hoffmann, F. & Teller, E. "Magneto-Hydrodynamic Shocks", Physical Review, 1950, 80, 692-703.
• Helfer, H. "Magneto-Hydrodynamic Shock Waves", The Astrophysical Journal, 1953, 117, 177.
• Friedrichs, K. O. "Nonlinear wave motion in magnetohydrodynamics", Los Alamos Sci. Lab. Report LAMS-2105 (Physics), written September 1954, distributed, March 1957. See also the somewhat emended and more available version of this report written jointly with H. Kranzer, Notes on magnetohydrodynamics, VIII, Nonlinear wave motion, AEC Computing and Applied Mathematics Center, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, Report No. NYO-6486 (1958).
• Marshall, W. "The Structure of Magneto-Hydrodynamic Shock Waves", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 1955, 233, 367-376.
• Bazer, J. "Resolution of an Initial Shear-Flow Discontinuity in One-Dimensional Hydromagnetic Flow", Astrophysical Journal, vol. 128, p. 686.
• Bazer, J. & Ericson, W. "Hydromagnetic Shocks", The Astrophysical Journal,1959, 129, 758.
• Sears, W. "Some Remarks about Flow past Bodies", Reviews of Modern Physics, 1960, 32, 701-705.
• Grad, H. "Reducible Problems in Magneto-Fluid Dynamic Steady Flows", Reviews of Modern Physics, 1960, 32, 830-847.

Textbook references.

• E. Priest, "Solar magneto-hydrodynamics"(chapter 5), Dordrecht, 1987.
• T. Gombosi "Physics of the Space Environment" (chapter 6), Cambridge University Press, 1998.