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Self-Similar Magnetohydrodynamics

Fluid Dynamics 2020-11-25 v1

Abstract

For the solution of the full set of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the presence of gravity due to a central point-mass, a self-similar theory for a general polytrope has already suggested a set of exact time-dependent solutions by analytical methods for a, (gamma = 4\over3) polytrope, since (gamma = 4/3) is the simplest to treat. In the present paper while going for a complete set of self-similar solutions, we find that (gamma = 4/3) is the only physically-possible polytrope and that then, pressure is independent of the scalar function A, and depends on angle and time only. We also obtain a specific form of time-dependence for the self-similar variable.

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@article{arxiv.2011.11756,
  title  = {Self-Similar Magnetohydrodynamics},
  author = {Abhik Kumar Sanyal and D. Ray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.11756},
  year   = {2020}
}

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