| Abstract: | A plane-polarized self-similar steady solution is constructed numerically for the problem of flow past a nonconducting wedge in magnetohydrodynamics when the magnetic field is not parallel to the velocity. The dependence of the form of the solution on the flow parameters — the velocity, the magnetic field intensity, and the angle ψ between the velocity and the field — is investigated. It is shown that there can be an abrupt re-arrangement of the solution at critical values of ψ, when either the characteristics merge in the flow or solutions with continuous magnetic field appear. |
