Multiple Time Scales (Computational Techniques, Vol 3)

There has been rapid progress in using large computers to solve problems possessing wide ranges of time scales. The variety of applications is bewildering, among them multiple-time-scale problems in chemical kinetics, statistical mechanics, weather prediction, astrophysics, radiation hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and particle simulation of plasmas. Here, a number of the more successful numerical methods in each application are described. In collecting theses methods, we hope to present the reader not only with a cookbook of recipes for modeling particular multiple-time-scale problems, but also with examples of inventiveness and focus that should lead to success in other, similar problems as well.