Ebook: Magnetohydrodynamics

Jeffrey A. Magnetohydrodynamics

In this book I have attempted to present the basic principles of magnetohydrodynamics which may be derived simply, and with reasonable mathematical rigour, from an elementary continuum model of a fluid. The reader is assumed to be familiar with the ideas leading up to the formulation of the Maxwell equations of electromagnetic theory and with vector methods. Although an understanding of fluid dynamics would be helpful, it is not strictly essential since any concepts needed are derived directly from first principles.

Allan Jeffrey