Computational Plasma Physics: With Application to Fusion and Astrophysics (Frontiers in Physics) - Hardcover

Tajima, T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201164116 ISBN 13: 9780201164114

Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co, 1988

Synopsis

The physics of plasmas is an extremely rich and complex subject as the variety of topics addressed in this book demonstrates. This richness and complexity demands new and powerful techniques for investigating plasma physics. An outgrowth from his graduate course teaching, now with corrections, Tajima's text provides not only a lucid introduction to computational plasma physics, but also offers the reader many examples of the way numerical modeling, properly handled, can provide valuable physical understanding of the nonlinear aspects so often encountered in both labouratory and astrophysical plasmas. Included here are computational methods for modern nonlinear physics as applied to hydrodynamic turbulence, solitons, fast reconnection of magnetic fields, anomalous transports, dynamics of the sun, and more. The text contains examples of problems now solved using computational techniques including those concerning finite-size particles, spectral techniques, implicit differencing, gyrokinetic approaches, and particle simulation.

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About the Author

Toshiki Tajima is Director General at the Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute in Kyoto. He was formerly the Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor in Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include accelerator physics and computational physics. He is co-author with Kazunari Shibata, of Plasma Astrophysics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0201164116
• ISBN 13: 9780201164114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 525