  The structure of steady plane-parallel radiative shock waves propagating
through the hydrogen gas undergoing partial ionization and excitation of bound
atomic states is investigated in terms of the self-consistent solution of the
equations of fluid dynamics, radiation transfer and atomic kinetics. The shock
wave model is represented by a flat finite slab with no incoming radiation from
external sources at both its boundaries. The self-consistent solution is
obtained using the global iteration procedure each step of which involves (1)
integration of the fluid dynamics and rate equations for the preshock and
postshock regions, consecutively, both solutions being fitted by the
Rankine-Hugoniot relations at the discontinuous jump; (2) solution of the
radiation transfer equation for the whole slab. The global iteration procedure
is shown to converge to the stable solution which allows for the strong
coupling of the gas flow and the radiation field produced by this flow.
Application of the method is demonstrated for the shock waves with upstream
velocities from 15 km/s to 60 km/s (that is with upstream Mach numbers from 2.3
to 9.3) and the hydrogen gas of unperturbed temperature T=3000K and density rho
= 1e-10 gm/cm^3.
