Abstract
The structure of a plane stationary shock wave in a plasma with a transverse magnetic field is explored by using the restricted variational principle of Rosen to evaluate the adjustable factors of Mott‐Smith's bimodal representation for the ion and electron distribution functions. The resulting solutions, in the strong shock limit, indicate that the particle number densities are essentially those of the nonmagnetic case, and that the transverse magnetic field departs considerably from the usual frozen‐in field profile, due to local dissipative effects of electrical conductivity.
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