magnetohydrodynamics

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The field of plasma physics covers particle trajectory, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), waves, instabilities, statistical physics, transport, nonlinear physics, and plasma confinement.

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  1. noun The study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting liquids or gases, such as molten metal or plasma. Also called hydromagnetics.

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  • The field of plasma physics covers particle trajectory, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), waves, instabilities, statistical physics, transport, nonlinear physics, and plasma confinement. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Processes studied include erosion and impact crater formation, faulting, orbital evolution, rotational dynamics, tectonism, volcanism, mantle convection, core magnetohydrodynamics and, in some cases, post-glacial rebound. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Such gas acts as a conductor of electricity and when employed as a "magnetohydrodynamics" generator it can be used for a variety of purposes. —  The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session
  • His work shows up on almost every scale of size, from the large scale we have only had access to via Hubble, the sprinkle of galaxies, to the magnificence of stellar structure, that we now comprehend via thermodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, to smaller structures, such as oceans, continental crust movements, planetary dynamics, down to the human size, the unbelievable complexity of the human brain, that we have at least partially seen through positron emission tomography, the ingenuity of the way we move, respond to each other, play football, construct laws, mathematics, music and employ love, generosity, compassion, and imagination, down to molecule biology, the dance of proteins, polysaccharides, enzymes, bonds, energy states, nuclear structure, and finally the smallest building blocks of all, that we might possibly have the privilege of viewing through the large hadron collider if all goes well. —  بالاترین
  • Finally, since we are able to frame this argument entirely in terms of observable quantities, our results apply to all geometric theories of gravity that admit stationary solutions, including the commonly discussed f (R) class of theories. accretion active angular binaries black close clusters cooling corrections disc discs disks disksblack electromagnetic evolution extra-solar feedback fields flows force formation galactic galaxies galaxy general generalpulsars gravitational hole holes hydrodynamics individual instabilities instability interactions j00300451 j180843658 j18084-3658 j1814338 j21243358stars jet jets light lineprofiles lorentz loss magnetic magnetohydrodynamics mass massive merger mhd migration millisecond model models momentum ms073567421 n-body neutron neutronx-rays nuclei numerical orbit orbital perturbation physics physicshydrodynamicsinstabilitiesshock planetary planets post-newtonian pre-main pressure protoplanetary protoplanets psr pulsar pulsars quasars radiation relativistic relativity remnant rotation sax sequence shock simulations smbhb solutions star stars state stationary steady-state stellar supernova systems tides transfer waves x-ray xrays x-rays xte —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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