The Hybrid Multiscale Simulation Technology: An Introduction with Application to Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Alexander S. Lipatov (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 410
Series: Scientific Computation
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive description of hybrid plasma simulation models and will provide a very useful summary and guide to the vast literature on this topic. It addresses researchers and graduate students knowledgeable about computational science and numerical analysis, and can be used in courses on astrophysical and space plasmas. It is also meant for plasma installation designers. The coupled Vlasov--Maxwell equations with collisions describing well the physical system are far too heavy for numerical siumulations. Hybrid models treat some aspects kinetically and some as fluids. In the first part the author discusses hybrid codes, which include a wide spectrum of description for ions, positrons, dust grains, atoms and electrons. In the second part he treats the applications to basic plasma phenomena like particle acceleration and dissipation processes as well as to the global interaction of the solar wind with nonmagnetic planets, comets, and the local interstellar medium.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Physical Systems and Computational Models....Pages 3-23
Particle-Mesh Models....Pages 25-65
Time Integration of the Particle Motion Equations....Pages 67-82
Density and Current Assignment. Force Interpolation. Conservation Laws....Pages 83-104
Time Integration of the Field and Electron Pressure Equations....Pages 105-142
General Loops for Hybrid Codes. Multiscale Methods....Pages 143-164
Particle Loading and Injection. Boundary Conditions....Pages 165-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Collisionless Shock Simulation....Pages 189-236
Tangential Discontinuity Simulation....Pages 237-253
Magnetic Field Reconnection Simulation....Pages 255-281
Beam Dynamics Simulation....Pages 283-307
Interaction of the Solar Wind with Astrophysical Objects....Pages 309-353
Appendix....Pages 355-364
Solutions....Pages 365-379
Back Matter....Pages 381-403

✦ Subjects

Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences;Numerical and Computational Physics;Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction;Plasma Physics;Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Introduction to Plasma Physics: With Spa

📁 Introduction to Plasma Physics: With Space, Laboratory and Astrophysical Applications

✍ Donald A. Gurnett, Amitava Bhattacharjee 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Introducing basic principles of plasma physics and their applications to space, laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, this new edition provides updated material throughout. Topics covered include single-particle motions, kinetic theory, magnetohydrodynamics, small amplitude waves in hot and cold pla

Advanced Magnetohydrodynamics: With Appl

📁 Advanced Magnetohydrodynamics: With Applications to Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas

✍ J. P. Goedbloed, Rony Keppens, Stefaan Poedts 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

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 (t

Plasma Physics: An Introduction to the T

📁 Plasma Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of Astrophysical, Geophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

✍ Peter Andrew Sturrock 📂 Library 📅 1994 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Plasma Physics is an authoritative and wide-ranging pedagogic study of the "fourth" state of matter. The constituents of the plasma state are influenced by electric and magnetic fields, and in turn also produce electric and magnetic fields. This fact leads to a rich array of properties of plasma de

Plasma physics: an introduction to the t

📁 Plasma physics: an introduction to the theory of astrophysical, geophysical, and laboratory plasmas

✍ Peter Andrew Sturrock 📂 Library 📅 1994 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Plasma Physics: An Introduction to the T

📁 Plasma Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of Astrophysical, Geophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

✍ Peter Andrew Sturrock 📂 Library 📅 1994 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Principles of Magnetohydrodynamics: With

📁 Principles of Magnetohydrodynamics: With Applications to Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas

✍ J. P. Hans Goedbloed, Stefaan Poedts 📂 Library 📅 2004 🌐 English

This volume describes the two main applications of plasma physics--laboratory research on thermo-nuclear fusion energy and plasma astrophysics of the solar system and stars and accretion disks--from the single viewpoint of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). This approach provides effective methods and insi