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MHD/Shocks: Rankine-Hugoniot Case Studies

This module allows you to vary the upstream parameters for the plasma, such as velocity, magnetic field strength, temperature, number density, and so on, and then to calculate the downstream values for these quantities.

km/s
nT
cm-3
K
K
°
 
Upstream parameters
Mach number:4.3
β:0.6
Ratio of criticality:2.2
Downstream values
Number density:23.3 cm-3
Temperature:3744743.5 K
Velocity:132.0 km/s
Normal:132.0 km/s
Tangential:0.0 km/s
Magnetic field strength:32.6 nT
Normal:0.0 nT
Tangential:32.6 nT