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In common with the equations of conventional gas dynamics, the equations governing the motion of a perfectly conducting compressible fluid belong to the class of reducible hyperbolic equations. Because of this structural similarity, many of the techniques which have been applied so successfully to gas dynamic flows may be extended to magnetohydrodynamic flows, and, in particular, it is possible to build up a theory of shock waves and simple waves remarkably parallel to that of conventional gas dynamics. This was pointed out quite elegantly by Friedrichs [1] and amplified by others.
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Gundersen, R.M. (1964). General Theory. In: Linearized Analysis of One-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Flows. Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46005-0_1
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