Effect of a transverse magnetic field on the "escape speed" of a conducting fluid.

Carl Greifinger

Expert InsightsPublished 1960

A discussion of the effect of a transverse magnetic field on the "escape speed" of a perfectly electrically conducting fluid. This paper indicates that (1) for a given initial ratio of the magnetic pressure to the hydrodynamic pressure in the conducting fluid, the "escape speed" is not uniquely defined, but depends on the magnetic pressure in the vacuum into which the fluid is expanding; and (2) the integrals appearing in the generalized Riemann invariants can be evaluated analytically.

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Greifinger, Carl, Effect of a transverse magnetic field on the "escape speed" of a conducting fluid. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1960. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P1875.html.
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