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5. CONCLUSIONS

We discussed some specific features of the WHIM heating processes by collisionless plasma shocks driven by gravitationally accelerated flows in the LSS structure formation scenario.


Acknowledgements. The authors thank ISSI (Bern) for support of the team "Non-virialized X-ray components in clusters of galaxies". A.M.B. thanks M. Yu. Gustov for his help with hybrid shock simulations, he acknowledges the RBRF grant 06-02-16844 and a support from RAS Presidium Programs. A support from NASA ATP (NNX07AG79G) is acknowledged.

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