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Relationships on discontinuities in magnetizing perfectly conducting media in a magnetic field are investigated. The magnetic permeabilities before and after the discontinuity are assumed to be constant, but unequal, quantities. It is shown that shocks of two kinds, fast and slow, are possible in the formulation under consideration in the hydrodynamics of magnetizing media, as in magnetic hydrodynamics: It is shown that the entropy decreases on the rarefaction shocks diminishing the magnetic permeability, but can grow on the rarefaction shocks increasing the magnetic permeability, but such waves are not evolutionary. The relationships on discontinuities in the mechanics of a continuous medium are written down in general form in [1] with the electromagnetic field, polarization, and magnetization effects taken into account. Relationships on discontinuities in the ferrohydrodynamic and elec trohydrodynamic approximations were written down in [2] and [3–5], respectively, for the cases when the magnetic permeability and dielectric permittivity of the medium ahead of and behind the discontinuity are arbitrary functions of their arguments and are identical. A system of relationships on discontinuities propagated into a magnetizing perfectly conducting medium is investigated in this paper. The method proposed in [6] is used in the investigation.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 104–110, January–February, 1976.
We are grateful to A. A. Barmin for discussing the paper and for valuable remarks.
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Bondarenko, O.N., Shaposhnikova, G.A. Investigation of surfaces of discontinuity in perfectly conducting magnetizing media. Fluid Dyn 11, 89–95 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01023400
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