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Record W4412647854 · doi:10.1017/9781009381468.007

MHD Waves and Discontinuities

2025· book-chapter· en· W4412647854 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicSolar and Space Plasma Dynamics
Canadian institutionsSaint Mary's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClassification of discontinuitiesMagnetohydrodynamicsGeologyGeophysicsPhysicsMathematicsMathematical analysisMagnetic field

Abstract

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This chapter starts by distinguishing between the primitive and conservative equations of MHD in 1-D, emphasising that the former deal only with continuous flow , whereas the latter admit flow discontinuities . The first application is to MHD waves including Alfvén , slow , fast , and magneto-acoustical waves . An intuitive analogy is given describing what one might experience in an MHD atmosphere when a “thunder clap” occurs. The MHD Rankine–Hugoniot jump conditions for MHD are introduced and solved (using difference theory ) revealing tangential/contact/rotational discontinuities and, most importantly, shock waves including slow , intermediate , and fast shocks . In the context of the not strictly hyperbolic nature of the MHD equations, both the entropy and evolutionary conditions are used to determine the physicality and uniqueness of the shock solution. Finally, discussion of MHD shocks includes the special cases of switch-on/off shocks and Euler shocks .

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.047

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.178
Teacher spread0.170 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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