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Textbooks on Space Plasmas and Fluid Mechanics:
H.K. Moffatt, Magnetic Field Generation in Electrically Conducting Fluids,
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Pijush K. Kundu, Fluid Mechanics, Academic Press, San Diego, 1990.
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