A. A. Blank, Harold Grad Notes on Magneto-Hydrodynamics

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Although the combined fluid and electromagnetic equations generally represent a far more complex system than that of classical fluid dynamics, there are a number of important instances for which the two systems are mathematically identical upon appropriate identification of symbols. The existence of these exact mathematical analogies permits the immediate applica tion of a wealth of known results in fluid dynamics to the relatively new and unexplored field of fluid magnetics(deg) One of these analogies is sufficiently ranified to be treated separately.1 The results given in this report are misleadingly brief; they allow the application of many known techniques and results to appropriate problems in fluid magnetics.