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    In physics and engineering, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD; also called magneto-fluid dynamics or hydro­magnetics) is a model of electrically conducting fluids...
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    accelerating an electrically conductive propellant (liquid or gas) with magnetohydrodynamics. The fluid is directed to the rear and as a reaction, the vehicle...
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  • construction. Computational magnetohydrodynamics Electrohydrodynamics Electromagnetic pump Ferrofluid Magnetic flow meter Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence MHD sensor...
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  • In physics, a fluxon is a quantum of electromagnetic flux. The term may have any of several related meanings. In the context of superconductivity, in type...
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    A magnetohydrodynamic converter (MHD converter) is an electromagnetic machine with no moving parts involving magnetohydrodynamics, the study of the kinetics...
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  • Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence concerns the chaotic regimes of magnetofluid flow at high Reynolds number. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) deals with what is...
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  • Computational magnetohydrodynamics (CMHD) is a rapidly developing branch of magnetohydrodynamics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and...
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  • About Magnetohydrodynamics Genamics JournalSeek: Magnetohydrodynamics, accessed 18 January 2010 Online Journal Review: Magnetohydrodynamics Archived...
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    is still reflected in names of some fluid dynamics topics, like magnetohydrodynamics and hydrodynamic stability, both of which can also be applied to...
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    interplanetary magnetic field. In an approximation known as ideal magnetohydrodynamics, plasma particles only move along magnetic field lines. As a result...
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    Ionosphere Polar wind Thunderstorms Fluid dynamics Atmospheric science Magnetohydrodynamics Oceanography Turbulence Geodynamics Climate Earth's mantle Exoplanetology...
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  • In magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), shocks and discontinuities are transition layers where properties of a plasma change from one equilibrium state to another...
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    stellar dynamics and evolution; galaxy formation and evolution; magnetohydrodynamics; large-scale structure of matter in the universe; origin of cosmic...
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  • The Elsasser number, Λ, is a dimensionless number in magnetohydrodynamics that represents the ratio of magnetic forces to the Coriolis force. Λ = σ B 2...
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  • Alfvén's theorem (category Magnetohydrodynamics)
    In ideal magnetohydrodynamics, Alfvén's theorem, or the frozen-in flux theorem, states that electrically conducting fluids and embedded magnetic fields...
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    are heavily used in computational fluid dynamics and computational magnetohydrodynamics. Generally speaking, Riemann solvers are specific methods for computing...
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  • using only electric and magnetic fields with no moving parts, using magnetohydrodynamics. The working principle involves electrification of the propellant...
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  • Induction equation (category Magnetohydrodynamics)
    In magnetohydrodynamics, the induction equation is a partial differential equation that relates the magnetic field and velocity of an electrically conductive...
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  • which—together with Alfvén waves—are the normal modes of ideal magnetohydro­dynamics. The fast and slow modes are distinguished by magnetic and gas pressure...
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    Airframe Version 2. It is propelled by creating an ion wind using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). MHD has been used to achieve vertical lift in the past, but...
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    work in the field of magnetohydrodynamics. There are also two closely related fields to the traditional field of magnetohydrodynamics which are called electrohydrodynamics...
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  • Thumbnail for Hannes Alfvén
    physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves...
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  • research interests in the field of fluid dynamics, particularly magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics...
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  • formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. He was awarded both the Eddington Medal (1993) and the Gold Medal...
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  • commonly used in physics. Understanding the phenomenon is essential to magnetohydrodynamics and has important consequences in astrophysics, geophysics, and electrical...
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    dynamical laws. This is studied, for example, in the subject of magnetohydrodynamics, which combines Maxwell theory with the Navier–Stokes equations....
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    surface Computational magnetohydrodynamics Electrohydrodynamics Electromagnetic pump Ferrofluid Magnetic flow meter Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence MHD generator...
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    This makes it a useful system for studying non-ideal (resistive) magnetohydrodynamics. RFPs are also used in studying astrophysical plasmas, which share...
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