Author: Landshoff, Rolf K. M. ; editor:
Title: Magnetohydrodynamics: A Symposium
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, [1960]. 3rd printing. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, viii, 115 pp, Library bookplate and cardpocket. In a torn dustwrapper.. illus. diagrs. Some rubbing. Rubberstamps to page-edges. Good+. dustwrapper. ¶ Contains 13 papers. Includes: Foreword, by Lois N. Ridenour; Preface, by Rolf K. M. Landshoff; Theoretical work: An Introductory discussion of Magnetohydrodynamics; Some dimensional aspects of hydromagnetic phenomena; The build-up of large magnetic fields inside stars; Penetration of a shock wave into a magnetic field; Dynamics of a pinched gas; Laboratory experiments: Scaling laws as an aid to experimental studies; Magnetically driven shock waves; Experiments at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory; Experiments at Lockheed Missile Systems Division; Experiments at AVCO; Shock waves passing through a magnetic field region; Liquid sodium instability experiment; The hydromagnetic wave guide.

Keywords: Magnetohydrodynamics, Hydromagnetic Waves, Magnetofluiddynamic, Magnetohydrodynamic, Fluid Dynamics, Hydromagnetics, Plasma Physics, Electromagnetic, Hydrodynamic