2 papers
astro-ph2005
The influence of the Mach number on the stability of radiative shocks
Babulakshmanan Ramachandran, Michael D. Smith
We study the stability properties of hydrodynamic shocks with finite Mach numbers. The linear analysis supplements previous analyses which took the strong shock limit. We derive th…
astro-ph2005
A stability analysis of radiative shocks in the presence of a transverse magnetic field
Babulakshmanan Ramachandran, Michael D. Smith
Radiative shock waves may be subject to a global thermal instability in which the cooling layer and shock front undergo growing resonant oscillations. For strong hydrodynamic shock…