MHD 1984
[“MHD 1984” is a link to a PDF file of the following.]

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Addendum, 7 March 2018

Alfvén’s magnetic pumping (by hydromagnetic or Alfvén waves), and hydromagnetic shocks are now recognized by computational physical science.

Scientists crack 70-year-old mystery of how magnetic waves heat the sun
March 6, 2018, Queen’s University Belfast
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-scientists-year-old-mystery-magnetic-sun.html

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In 1942, Swedish physicist and engineer Hannes Alfvén presented his theory of hydromagnetic waves, for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1970. Between 1983 and 1985, I tried to convince my supposed colleagues and science-bureaucrat superiors (timorous bosses and climbers at Livermore, and also Los Alamos) to study this type of magnetic wave phenomenon, after I found ample evidence of it in very elaborate computer simulations of nuclear explosions (simulations of which was all they knew how to do) driving moderately relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (which they did not recognize nor understand at all). So, I enjoyed reading about the new advances in hydromagnetic wave physics made by the Queen’s University Belfast. My cartoon physics monograph on the subject (to the extent I could understand it), from 1983-1985, is available at my blog under the title “Proton Beam Driven Electron MHD.” One of my favorite works ever.

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