Magneto-fluid dynamics [electronic resource] : fundamentals and case studies of natural phenomena / Paul Lorrain, François Lorrain, Stéphane Houle.

This book concerns the generation of electric currents and of electric space charges inside conducting media that move in magnetic fields. The authors postulate nothing but the Maxwell equations. They discuss at length the disk dynamo, which serves as a model for the natural self-excited dynamos tha...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Lorrain, Paul
Other Authors:	Lorrain, François, 1945-, Houle, Stéphane
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Springer, ©2006.
Series:	Astronomy and astrophysics library.
Subjects:	Magnetohydrodynamics.