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Weyl's theorem for magnetohydrodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

G. P. Zank
G. P. Zank
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Institute, The University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Weyl's well-known theorem describing the behaviour of the entropy on the Hugoniot for gasdynamics is extended to magnetohydrodynamics. In so doing, it is pointed out why similar thermodynamical arguments are not easily established for more complicated reacting fluids such as the gasdynamical equations with mass-loading.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , August 1991 , pp. 11 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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