Strong Electron Acceleration at High Mach Number Shock Waves: Simulation Study of Electron Dynamics

2000 ◽  
Vol 543 (1) ◽  
pp. L67-L71 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Shimada ◽  
M. Hoshino
Keyword(s):  
Mach Number ◽  
Shock Waves ◽  
Simulation Study ◽  
Electron Acceleration ◽  
Electron Dynamics ◽  
Strong Electron ◽  
High Mach Number ◽  
High Mach

scholarly journals Using the ROSS optical streak camera as a tool to understand laboratory experiments of laser-driven magnetized shock waves

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Liao ◽  
Patrick Hartigan ◽  
Gennady Fiksel ◽  
Brent Blue ◽  
Peter Graham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mach Number ◽  
Shock Waves ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
High Mach Number ◽  
Spatially Resolved ◽  
Laboratory Plasmas ◽  
High Mach ◽  
Astrophysical Flows ◽  
Ability To Drive

Supersonic flows with high Mach number are ubiquitous in astrophysics. High-powered lasers also have the ability to drive high Mach number, radiating shock waves in laboratory plasmas, and recent experiments along these lines have made it possible to recreate analogs of high Mach-number astrophysical flows under controlled conditions. Streak cameras such as the Rochester optical streak system (ROSS) are particularly helpful in diagnosing such experiments, because they acquire spatially resolved measurements of the radiating gas continuously over a large time interval, making it easy to observe how any shock waves and ablation fronts present in the system evolve with time. This paper summarizes new ROSS observations of a laboratory analog of the collision of a stellar wind with an ablating planetary atmosphere embedded within a magnetosphere. We find good agreement between the observed ROSS data and numerical models obtained with the FLASH code, but only when the effects of optical depth are properly taken into account.

Experimental Study of High Mach Number Collisionless Shock Waves

Shock Tubes ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 463-474
Author(s):  
L. S. Levine ◽  
I. M. Vitkovitsky ◽  
A. C. Kolb
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Mach Number ◽  
Shock Waves ◽  
Collisionless Shock ◽  
High Mach Number ◽  
High Mach

An unseeded air MHD accelerator concept for high Mach number hypersonic propulsion testing

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
GLOYD SIMMONS ◽  
GORDON NELSON ◽  
ROBERT HIERS ◽  
ARTHURB. WESTERN
Keyword(s):  
Mach Number ◽  
Hypersonic Propulsion ◽  
High Mach Number ◽  
High Mach
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