  Collisions of asymmetric planar shocks in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills
theory are studied via their dual gravitational formulation in asymptotically
anti-de Sitter spacetime. The post-collision hydrodynamic flow is found to be
very well described by appropriate means of the results of symmetric shock
collisions. This study extends, to asymmetric collisions, previous work of
Chesler, Kilbertus, and van der Schee examining the special case of symmetric
collisions. Given the universal description of hydrodynamic flow produced by
asymmetric planar collisions one can model, quantitatively, non-planar,
non-central collisions of highly Lorentz contracted projectiles without the
need for computing, holographically, collisions of finite size projectiles with
very large aspect ratios. This paper also contains a pedagogical description of
the computational methods and software used to compute shockwave collisions
using pseudo-spectral methods, supplementing the earlier overview of Chesler
and Yaffe.
