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Record Nr.

UNISA996466721703316

Titolo

Jets from young stars . III Numerical MHD and instabilities / / Silvano Massaglia [and three others] editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-540-76967-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 178 p. 49 illus., 9 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 754

Disciplina

523.8

Soggetti

Astrophysical jets

Stellar dynamics

Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Lectures from the Third JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars focusing on Numerical MHD and Instabilities, held in Sauze d'Oulx in Jan. 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Numerical Methods -- Computational Methods for Hyperbolic Equations -- Shock-Capturing Schemes in Computational MHD -- Hydrodynamic and Magneto-Hydrodynamic Instabilities -- The Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability -- Pressure-Driven Instabilities in Astrophysical Jets -- Thermal Instabilities -- The Oscillatory Instability of Radiative Shock Waves.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains the lecture notes of the Third JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars focussing on Numerical MHD and Instabilities. The introductory lectures presented here cover the basic concepts of the numerical methods for the integration of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic equations and of the applications of these methods to the treatment of the instabilities relevant for the physics of stellar jets. The first part of the book contains an introduction to the finite difference and finite volume methods for computing the solutions of hyperbolic partial differential equations and a discussion of approximate Riemann solvers for both hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic problems. The second part is devoted to the discussion of some of the main instability processes that may take place in stellar jets, namely: the Kelvin-Helmholtz, the radiative shock,



the pressure driven and the thermal instabilities. Graduate students and young scientists will benefit from this book by learning how to use the fundamental tools used in computational astrophysical jet research.