Shock Waves Propagation in the Turbulent Interplanetary Plasma

Abstract

A b s t r a c t . Effect of turbulence on interplanetary shock waves propagation is considered. It is shown that background turbulence results in the additional shock wave deceleration which may be comparable with the deceleration due to plasma sweeping. The turbulent deceleration is connected with the energy losses due to the strong turbulence amplification behind the moving shock front.

The multi-scale nature of the solar wind

“…Although every plasma process is conceivably a multi-scale process, we, by practical necessity, only address the physics processes we consider most relevant to the multi-scale evolution of the solar wind. The most prominent processes not covered in this review include detailed discussions of reconnection (Pontin, 2011;Gosling, 2012;Paschmann et al, 2013), shock waves Chashei and Shishov, 1997;Lepping, 2000;Rice and Zank, 2003), the physics of the outer heliosphere (pick-up ions, energetic neutral atoms, etc., Zank et al, 1995;Zank, 1999;Richardson et al, 2004;McComas et al, 2012;Zank et al, 2018), interplanetary dust (Krüger et al, 2007;Mann et al, 2010), interactions with planetary bodies (Grard et al, 1991;Kivelson and Bagenal, 2007;Gardini et al, 2011;Bagenal, 2013), eruptive events such as coronal mass ejections (Zurbuchen and Richardson, 2006;Howard and Tappin, 2009;Webb and Howard, 2012), solar energetic particles (Ryan et al, 2000;Mikić and Lee, 2006;Klein and Dalla, 2017), and (anomalous) cosmic rays (Heber et al, 2006;Potgieter, 2008;Giacalone et al, 2012;Potgieter, 2013). We also limit our discussion of minor-ion physics.…”