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[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Magnetohydrodynamics is a somewhat specialized subfield where there are immediate direct applications to nuclear fusion reactors.

It's basically fluid mechanics, like you'd see in the aerospace department, but the fluid both generates and is moved by the local magnetic field. Because it's an ionized plasma.

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