Numerical studies of magnetosonic collisionless shock waves
D. BiskampMax-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching bei München, Federal Republic of GermanyH. WelterMax-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching bei München, Federal Republic of Germany
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Supercritical collisionless shock waves propagating perpendicularly to a magnetic field are studied by means of numerical simulation computations. When ion gyration is neglected, the ion temperature increase through the shock is only due to adiabatic compression. Anomalous ion heating is caused by dissipation of the reflected ions which occurs if ion gyration is included.
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