Advanced Magnetohydrodynamics: With Applications to Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas - Hardcover

Goedbloed, J. P.; Keppens, Rony; Poedts, Stefaan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521879574 ISBN 13: 9780521879576

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Following on from the companion volume Principles of Magnetohydrodynamics, this textbook analyzes the applications of plasma physics to thermonuclear fusion and plasma astrophysics from the single viewpoint of MHD. This approach turns out to be ever more powerful when applied to streaming plasmas (the vast majority of visible matter in the Universe), toroidal plasmas (the most promising approach to fusion energy), and nonlinear dynamics (where it all comes together with modern computational techniques and extreme transonic and relativistic plasma flows). The textbook interweaves theory and explicit calculations of waves and instabilities of streaming plasmas in complex magnetic geometries. It is ideally suited to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in plasma physics and astrophysics.

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Book Description

Following on from the companion volume Principles of Magnetohydrodynamics, this textbook analyzes the applications of plasma physics to thermonuclear fusion and plasma astrophysics from the viewpoint of MHD. The textbook interweaves theory and explicit calculations, and is ideally suited to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in plasma physics and astrophysics.

About the Author

J. P. (Hans) Goedbloed is an advisor at the FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics and Professor Emeritus of theoretical plasma physics at Utrecht University. He has been a visiting scientist at laboratories in the Soviet Union, the United States, Brazil and Europe. He has taught at Campinas, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, MIT, K. U. Leuven, and regularly at Amsterdam Free University and Utrecht University. For many years he coordinated a large-scale computational effort with the Dutch Science Organization on Fast Changes in Complex Flows involving scientists of different disciplines.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521879574
• ISBN 13: 9780521879576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656