NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A SHOCK WAVE WITH AN INFINITE MACH MUMBER IN A COLLISIONLESS MAGNETIC PLASMA

V. P. Washurin, S. F. Garanin, A. I. Golubev
Vant. Ser. Metodiki i Programmy Chislennogo Resheniya Zadach Matematicheskoy Fiziki 1983. Вып.2. С. 21-28.

      A shock wave in collisionless magnetic plasma is investigated for the case of infinitely large Alfven-Mach numbers. The Larmor ions motion is assumed to play the main role in a shock wave generation. A plasma computer model is formulated where the distribution function evolution problem is reduced to that of "liguid thread" motion in phase space. Numerical results are disucssed.