By Dalton D. Schnack
Magnetohydrodynamics, or MHD, is a theoretical method of describing the statics and dynamics of electrically accomplishing uids. an important of those uids happening in either nature and the laboratory are ionized gases, known as plasmas. those have the simultaneous houses of accomplishing electrical energy and being electrically cost impartial on just about all size scales. The learn of those gases is named plasma physics. MHD is the terrible cousin of plasma physics. it's the least difficult concept of plasma dynamics. In such a lot introductory classes, it's always afforded a quick bankruptcy or lecture at so much: Alfven ´ waves, the kink mode, and that's it. (Now, directly to Landau damping!) In complex plasma classes, resembling these facing waves or kinetic thought, it's given a fair extra cursory therapy, a short point out as a way to issues extra profound and fascinating. (It is simply MHD! along with, genuine plasma phy- cists do kinetic theory!) still, MHD is an critical instrument in all purposes of plasma physics.
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