Magnetic Reconnection MHD Theory and Applications

Name: Magnetic Reconnection MHD Theory and Applications
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ISBN: 9780521033947

ISBN-10: 0521033942

ISBN-13: 9780521033947

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eric Priest, Terry Forbes

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Magnetic reconnection is at the core of many dynamic phenomena in the universe, such as solar flares, geomagnetic substorms and tokamak disruptions. Written by two world leaders on the subject, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of this fundamental process. Coverage gives both a pedagogical account of the basic theory and a wide-ranging review of the physical phenomena created by reconnection--from laboratory machines, the Earth's magnetosphere, and the Sun's atmosphere to flare stars and astrophysical accretion disks. It also includes a succinct account of particle acceleration by electric fields, stochastic fields and shock waves, and how reconnection can be important in these…

Book details

List price: $83.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 616
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.61" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Eric Priest completed his PhD thesis with T. G. Cowling at Leeds in 1969, having moved to a tenured position at St Andrews University in 1968. He gradually built up an internationally renowned Solar MHD group there and is now a highly active Emeritus Professor. He has edited fifteen books and written over 450 research papers. His book Solar Magnetohydrodynamics (1982) became a standard text in the field and has been completely rewritten from scratch to be reborn as Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun. Honours include being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (2002) and being awarded the Hale Prize of the American Astronomical Society (2002) and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society… (2009).



Preface



Introduction



Current-sheet formation



Magnetic annihilation



Steady reconnection: the classical solutions



Steady reconnection: new generation of fast regimes



Unsteady reconnection: the tearing mode



Unsteady reconnection: other approaches



Reconnection in three dimensions



Laboratory applications



Magnetospheric applications



Solar applications



Astrophysical applications



Particle acceleration


References


Appendices


Index