magnetohydrodynamicadj.

1942 H. Alfvén in Stockholm's Observatoriums Annaler 14 25 The other objection..is that the acceleration ought to be effected by means of magneto-hydrodynamic waves.

1960 Times 14 Apr. 2/2 (advt.) Central Electricity Generating Board... Teams are being formed to work on the following projects:—..Magnetohydrodynamic generation. Fundamental research on (relatively) low temperature plasmas and their interactions with magnetic fields [etc.].

1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics vi. 287 In a binary system, the angular momentum of the main star seems to have been transferred to the orbital motion of the second star. The means by which the angular momentum was shuffled off is not entirely clear, but magnetohydrodynamic or viscous effects could have played the key role.

1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth vi. 94/2 Runcorn has re-examined the possibility of exciting the wobble [of the rotating earth] by the effects of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the fluid outer core.

1991 Mech. Engin. Sept. 1/2 A coal-fired magnetohydrodynamic steam combined-cycle power plant.

1953 L. H. Aller Astrophysics ix. 354 Alfvén suggested a theory of sunspots based on magneto-hydrodynamical waves.

1959 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. 64 1220/1 The entire medium can..be stirred up without requiring any magnetohydrodynamical work.

1996 Nature 5 Sept. 32/2 If a magnetic field is coupled to an incompressible plasma that is hot enough, the magnetohydrodynamical approximation, in which the conductivity σ is assumed to be infinite, can be used.

1962 W. B. Thompson Introd. Plasma Physics iv. 58 The possibility of producing a magnetohydrodynamically confined plasma has stimulated an enormous research effort in plasma physics.

1992 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 72 4581 The discharge consists of a magnetohydrodynamically stable, imploding thick annulus.