Abstract
The structure of a plane stationary shock wave in a dense high-temperature plasma has several distinguishing features. These features have mainly been described and studied in [1–4] (also see survey [5]). As has been demonstrated in these studies, the structure of a shock wave in a plasma is discontinuous for rather large Mach numbers: within the wave, there is a jump in the ion temperature, density, and velocity of the plasma (the electron temperature remains constant). The importance of radiation in this case reduces to some effect on the conditions for formation of the discontinuity if, of course, the photon mean free path is considerably greater than the particle mean free path. This discontinuity is naturally called a viscous isoelectron thermal discontinuity.
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