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When a conducting fluid moves in a magnetic field, additional forces acting on the fluid particles arise. On the other hand, electric currents showing up in a moving fluid change the external magnetic field. The interaction of a fluid velocity field and a magnetic field causes some pecularities of fluid motion and complicates a description of this motion considerably. In this chapter we turn to magnetohydrodynamics—the branch of science which provides us with such a description when the medium is assumed to be continuous.
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Brekhovskikh, L.M., Goncharov, V. (1994). Magnetohydrodynamics. In: Mechanics of Continua and Wave Dynamics. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85034-9_13
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