Notes on Magneto-Hydrodynamics - Fluid Dynamical Analogies #252397

Although the combined fluid and electromagnetic equations generally represent a far more complex system than that of classical fluid dynamics, there are a number of important instances for which the two systems are mathematically identical upon appropriate identification of symbols. The existence of these exact mathematical analogies permits the immediate applica tion of a wealth of known results in fluid dynamics to the relatively new and unexplored field of fluid magnetics° One of these analogies is sufficiently ranified to be treated separately.1 The results given in this report are misleadingly brief; they allow the application of many known techniques and results to appropriate problems in fluid magnetics.