High speed flows and shock waves in astrophysical problems

Typical problems of high speed flows and shock waves in astrophysical environment are reviewed in the present paper. The emphases are especially to the solar wind acceleration, the jet structure of radio galaxies and Quasars, the galactic shock waves.This article was processed using Springer-Verlag T_EX Shock Waves macro package 1.0 and the AMS fonts, developed by the American Mathematical Society.