A comprehensive review is given of the theory and properties of nonrelativistic shocks in hot
collisionless plasmas—in view of their possible application in astrophysics. Understanding …

A review is presented of the studies in the former Soviet Union and in the USA of the mutual
interactions of plasmas and high speed flows and shocks. There are reports from as early as …

The aim of this review is to introduce the reader to some of the physical notions and the
mathematical methods that are relevant to the study of nonlinear waves in Bose–Einstein …

Shock waves and the associated phenomena generated by strongly ablating meteoroids
with sizes greater than a few millimeters in the lower transitional flow regime of the Earth's …

A" z-pinch" is a deceptively simple plasma configuration in which a longitudinal current
produces a magnetic field that tends to confine the plasma. The simple geometry and low …

We investigate the formation of collisionless shocks along the spatial profile of a Gaussian
laser beam propagating in nonlocal nonlinear media. For defocusing nonlinearity the shock …

The formation, composition and propagation of laser-produced plasmas used for pulsed
laser deposition (PLD) of Y 1 Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7− x have been studied under film growth …

Localized phase transitions as well as shock waves can often be modeled by material
discontinuities satisfying Rankine-Hugoniot (RH) jump conditions. The use of Maxwell …

Whistler waves are an intrinsic feature of the oblique quasiperpendicular collisionless shock
waves. For supercritical shock waves, the ramp region, where an abrupt increase of the …

In 1825, Michael Faraday initiated popular Christmas lectures in London, which remain the
flagship scientific lectures in the UK until today. Eventually, Faraday presented a series of six …