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Magneto-Fluid and Plasma Dynamics

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Harold Grad, Editor

Publication: Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics
Publication Year: 1967; Volume 18
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1318-8 (print); 978-0-8218-9233-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/psapm/018

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General nonlinear theory

• C. K. Chu – Some remarks on the stability of hydromagnetic shock waves
• P. Germain – A model of some plasma shock structures
• John M. Greene – Stability of a slightly resistive plasma
• G. S. S. Ludford – On the controversy over an aligned magnetic field
• Willem V. R. Malkus – Hydromagnetic instability of the sub-Alfvén equations
• K. M. Case – Singular eigenfunctions and plasma problems [MR 0214350]
• Michel Trocheris – A mathematical problem in the “quasi-linear” theory of plasma waves [MR 0215572]
• Harold Weitzner – Longitudinal plasma oscillations
• William A. Newcomb – Exchange invariance in fluid systems
• Harold Grad – The guiding center plasma [MR 0215567]
• M. N. Rosenbluth – Problems in plasma microinstability
• Edward A. Frieman – The present state of plasma kinetic theory
• Norman Rostoker – Quasi-particles in a plasma
• R. Z. Sagdeev – On Ohm’s law resulting from instability