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Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), also called sometimes magnetofluid dynamics or hydromagnetics, is the study of the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids in the presence of a magnetic field. Electrical fields induced in such a fluid as the result of its motion are bound to drive electrical currents that modify the magnetic field which, in turn, imparts force on the fluid, affecting its motion.
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Regev, O., Umurhan, O.M., Yecko, P.A. (2016). Magnetohydrodynamics. In: Modern Fluid Dynamics for Physics and Astrophysics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3164-4_10
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