Geometry and dynamics of fast magnetosonic wavefronts near magnetic null points

DOI10.1016/j.cnsns.2016.07.001zbMath1466.78005MaRDI QIDQ2005000

Manuel A. Nunez

Publication date: 7 October 2020

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2016.07.001

zbMATH Keywords

shock formation; geometrical optics; fast magnetosonic waves; magnetic null points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q60: PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory

76L05: Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics

35F20: Nonlinear first-order PDEs

30C20: Conformal mappings of special domains

76Q05: Hydro- and aero-acoustics

78A30: Electro- and magnetostatics

78A05: Geometric optics