Solution

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The calculation in part (a) leaves the cross-helicity conservation law source
At positive temperature, this vanishes exactly when the magnetic field is tangent to constant-specific entropy surfaces: . A homentropic flow is a sufficient special case; uniform entropy throughout space is not necessary. Mere advection of specific entropy, , constrains its variation along the velocity rather than along the magnetic field, so it does not by itself eliminate this source. To conserve total cross-helicity in a volume, the net boundary flux must also vanish.

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