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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 57 3 b Solution by
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The logarithmic density term is the barotropic fluid energy for , rather than the thermodynamic heat content of an isolated gas. DefineFor any scalar , the continuity equation implies . Therefore , , and dotting the momentum equations with givesThe MHD induction equation gives the complementary magnetic energy balanceAdding these two identities, and collecting the product derivatives, yields the barotropic magnetic energy equationHere . The two stress terms in describe magnetohydrodynamic shear work: the maintained background shear flow can supply energy to, or remove energy from, the perturbation flow and magnetic field. The sign depends on the off-diagonal total stress; this is why the energy excluding the background shear flow is not generally conserved. Changing merely adds a constant multiple of the conserved density to and the corresponding mass flux to , leaving unchanged.
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