| Abstract: | A study is made of the analog of Prandt1—Meyer flow in an incompressible electrically conducting ideal fluid that is magnetizable in accordance with an arbitrary isotropic law. It is shown that inhomogeneity of the magnetization in a conducting fluid makes possible the existence of stationary simple waves with varying magnetic permeability. For a paramagnetic fluid magnetized to saturation, the equations of these waves are integrated completely in the case of a magnetic field parallel to the velocity. Some regions of such flows of magnetizable fluids are discussed in the present paper for the example of the problem of flow around a perfectly conducting profile.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 136–143, September–October, 1980.I thank I.E. Tarapov for his interest in the work and valuable comments made in a discussion. |
