How the study of magnetohydrodynamics came to the Engineering Department of Cambridge University was never fully recorded. What is known is that an interest in the heat-transfer properties of liquid metals began with the research undertaken by L.M. Trefethen, who entered the Department as a research student in 1946. Trefethen’s earlier education had been in the United States, culminating in a master’s degree from the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. His subject of research at Cambridge was approved initially as “Gas turbines – turbine blade cooling”.
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Cowley, M. (2007). Early Years of MHD at Cambridge University Engineering Department. In: Magnetohydrodynamics. Fluid Mechanics And Its Applications, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4833-3_8
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