1. The problem is equivalent under Lorentz transformation to the case in which the plate moves with velocity −V0 into a stationary fluid, with no impressed electric field.
2. Some remarks on the flat plate boundary layer
3. The magnetohydrodynamic flow past a flat plate
4. Our analysis makes use of Ohm’s law in a form [see Eq. (8)] applicable to a comparatively dense (collision frequency ≫ spiraling frequency of electrons), incompressible conductor; the phrase “relatively easy,” in the last sentence, must therefore be modified by the condition that the experimenter possess facilities for working with such fluids as mercury or liquid sodium.
5. This increase in skin friction is in fact the only effect of the magnetic field on the plate.