By P. A. Davidson
Magnetic fields are commonly utilized in to warmth, pump, stir and levitate liquid metals. there's the terrestrial magnetic box that's maintained by way of fluid movement within the earth's middle, the sun magnetic box, which generates sunspots and sun flares, and the galactic box that affects the formation of stars. This introductory textual content on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) (the examine of the interplay of magnetic fields and accomplishing fluids) is meant to function an introductory textual content for complex undergraduates and graduate scholars in physics, utilized arithmetic and engineering. the fabric within the textual content is seriously weighted towards incompressible flows and to terrestrial (as specified from astrophysical) purposes. the ultimate sections of the textual content, which define the most recent advances within the metallurgical functions of MHD, make the booklet of curiosity to specialist researchers in utilized arithmetic, engineering and metallurgy.
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