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Collisionless plasmas in astrophysics / / Gerard Belmont [and four others]
| Collisionless plasmas in astrophysics / / Gerard Belmont [and four others] |
| Autore | Belmont Gerard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & sons, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
| Disciplina | 530.446 |
| Soggetto topico |
Collisionless plasmas
Plasma astrophysics |
| ISBN |
3-527-65624-3
3-527-65622-7 3-527-65625-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Collisionless Plasmas in Astrophysics; Contents; About the Authors; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Goals of the Book; 1.2 Plasmas in Astrophysics; 1.2.1 Plasmas Are Ubiquitous; 1.2.2 The Magnetosphere of Stars; 1.2.3 Shock Waves; 1.2.4 Planetary Magnetospheres; 1.3 Upstream of Plasma Physics: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves; 1.3.1 Electromagnetic Fields; 1.3.2 Transverse and Longitudinal Electromagnetic Field; 1.3.3 Electromagnetic Fields in Vacuum; 1.3.4 Plane Waves in a Plasma; 1.3.5 Electromagnetic Components of Plane Plasma Waves
1.3.6 Some General Properties of Plane Wave Polarization and Dispersion1.3.7 Electrostatic Waves; 1.3.8 Wave Packets and Group Velocity; 1.3.9 Propagation of Plane Waves in a Weakly Inhomogeneous Medium; 1.3.10 Useful Approximations of the Maxwell Equations in Plasma Physics; 1.4 Upstream of Plasma Physics: The Motion of Charged Particles; 1.4.1 The Motion of the Guiding Center; 1.4.2 Adiabatic Invariants; 1.4.3 The Motion of a Particle in a Wave; 2 Plasma Descriptions and Plasma Models; 2.1 Distribution Function and Moments; 2.1.1 From Individual Particles to Kinetic Description 2.1.2 Kinetic Description and First Order Moments2.1.3 Higher-Order Moments; 2.1.4 Moments for a Mixture of Populations; 2.1.5 Nontrivial Generalization of the Fluid Concepts; 2.1.6 Fluid vs. Kinetic Description: An Example; 2.2 From Kinetic to Fluid Equations; 2.2.1 Moment Equations; 2.2.2 Lagrangian Form of the Moment Equations; 2.2.3 Fluid Equations: Necessity of a Closure Equation; 2.2.4 Collisional Limit: Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics; 2.3 Numerical Methods; 2.3.1 Vlasov Codes; 2.3.2 Particle in Cell Codes (PIC); 2.3.3 Perturbative PIC Codes; 2.4 Fluid Codes; 2.5 Hybrid Codes 3 The Magnetized Plasmas3.1 Ideal MHD; 3.1.1 The Ideal MHD System; 3.1.2 The Ideal Ohm's Law; 3.2 Establishing the MHD Model; 3.2.1 Large-Scale Conditions of Validity; 3.2.2 Departures from MHD: Multi-Fluid and Kinetic Effects; 3.3 Dimensional Analysis and Plasma Characteristic Scales; 3.3.1 Dimensional Analysis: The General Methods; 3.3.2 Temporal and Spatial Scales, Adimensional Numbers; 3.3.3 Dispersive and Dissipative Effects; 3.3.4 Physical Importance of the Dimensionless Parameters; 4 Collisional-Collisionless; 4.1 Notion of Collisions in Plasma Physics 4.1.1 Coulomb Interaction: A Long Range Interaction4.1.2 Mean Free Path; 4.1.3 The Debye Length and the Notion of Debye "Screening"; 4.1.4 Knudsen Number; 4.1.5 Plasma Regimes; 4.2 Notion of Dissipation; 4.2.1 Transfers of Energy and Dissipation; 4.2.2 The Concept of Dissipation in Collisional Fluids; 4.2.3 Reversibility; 4.2.4 Irreversibility and Damping; 4.2.5 The Notion of Reversibility Depends on the Description; 4.2.6 Entropy; 5 Waves in Plasmas; 5.1 MHD Waves; 5.1.1 Polarization of the MHD Waves; 5.1.2 Application: Alfvén and MHD Waves in the Earth's Magnetosphere 5.2 Transport Induced by Waves |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139012903321 |
Belmont Gerard
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & sons, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Collisionless plasmas in astrophysics / / Gerard Belmont [and four others]
| Collisionless plasmas in astrophysics / / Gerard Belmont [and four others] |
| Autore | Belmont Gerard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & sons, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
| Disciplina | 530.446 |
| Soggetto topico |
Collisionless plasmas
Plasma astrophysics |
| ISBN |
3-527-65624-3
3-527-65622-7 3-527-65625-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Collisionless Plasmas in Astrophysics; Contents; About the Authors; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Goals of the Book; 1.2 Plasmas in Astrophysics; 1.2.1 Plasmas Are Ubiquitous; 1.2.2 The Magnetosphere of Stars; 1.2.3 Shock Waves; 1.2.4 Planetary Magnetospheres; 1.3 Upstream of Plasma Physics: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves; 1.3.1 Electromagnetic Fields; 1.3.2 Transverse and Longitudinal Electromagnetic Field; 1.3.3 Electromagnetic Fields in Vacuum; 1.3.4 Plane Waves in a Plasma; 1.3.5 Electromagnetic Components of Plane Plasma Waves
1.3.6 Some General Properties of Plane Wave Polarization and Dispersion1.3.7 Electrostatic Waves; 1.3.8 Wave Packets and Group Velocity; 1.3.9 Propagation of Plane Waves in a Weakly Inhomogeneous Medium; 1.3.10 Useful Approximations of the Maxwell Equations in Plasma Physics; 1.4 Upstream of Plasma Physics: The Motion of Charged Particles; 1.4.1 The Motion of the Guiding Center; 1.4.2 Adiabatic Invariants; 1.4.3 The Motion of a Particle in a Wave; 2 Plasma Descriptions and Plasma Models; 2.1 Distribution Function and Moments; 2.1.1 From Individual Particles to Kinetic Description 2.1.2 Kinetic Description and First Order Moments2.1.3 Higher-Order Moments; 2.1.4 Moments for a Mixture of Populations; 2.1.5 Nontrivial Generalization of the Fluid Concepts; 2.1.6 Fluid vs. Kinetic Description: An Example; 2.2 From Kinetic to Fluid Equations; 2.2.1 Moment Equations; 2.2.2 Lagrangian Form of the Moment Equations; 2.2.3 Fluid Equations: Necessity of a Closure Equation; 2.2.4 Collisional Limit: Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics; 2.3 Numerical Methods; 2.3.1 Vlasov Codes; 2.3.2 Particle in Cell Codes (PIC); 2.3.3 Perturbative PIC Codes; 2.4 Fluid Codes; 2.5 Hybrid Codes 3 The Magnetized Plasmas3.1 Ideal MHD; 3.1.1 The Ideal MHD System; 3.1.2 The Ideal Ohm's Law; 3.2 Establishing the MHD Model; 3.2.1 Large-Scale Conditions of Validity; 3.2.2 Departures from MHD: Multi-Fluid and Kinetic Effects; 3.3 Dimensional Analysis and Plasma Characteristic Scales; 3.3.1 Dimensional Analysis: The General Methods; 3.3.2 Temporal and Spatial Scales, Adimensional Numbers; 3.3.3 Dispersive and Dissipative Effects; 3.3.4 Physical Importance of the Dimensionless Parameters; 4 Collisional-Collisionless; 4.1 Notion of Collisions in Plasma Physics 4.1.1 Coulomb Interaction: A Long Range Interaction4.1.2 Mean Free Path; 4.1.3 The Debye Length and the Notion of Debye "Screening"; 4.1.4 Knudsen Number; 4.1.5 Plasma Regimes; 4.2 Notion of Dissipation; 4.2.1 Transfers of Energy and Dissipation; 4.2.2 The Concept of Dissipation in Collisional Fluids; 4.2.3 Reversibility; 4.2.4 Irreversibility and Damping; 4.2.5 The Notion of Reversibility Depends on the Description; 4.2.6 Entropy; 5 Waves in Plasmas; 5.1 MHD Waves; 5.1.1 Polarization of the MHD Waves; 5.1.2 Application: Alfvén and MHD Waves in the Earth's Magnetosphere 5.2 Transport Induced by Waves |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806929603321 |
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Belmont Gerard
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & sons, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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