Overview

This topical volume has been written with the explicit aim to provide a high-level introductory book for a field where there were no elementary textbooks available. It addresses postgraduate students and young scientists investigating space plasma physics or planning to specialize in this field. Experienced researchers will find this book to be a comprehensive source of reference as well as a source of advanced topics for their courses.

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Author:   Jörg Büchner ,  Christian Dum ,  Manfred Scholer
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Volume:   615
Weight:   0.629kg
ISBN:  

9783642056345

ISBN 10:   3642056342
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   04 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasmas— A Tutorial.- Parallel 3-D Electromagnetic Particle Code Using High Performance FORTRAN: Parallel TRISTAN.- Full Particle Electromagnetic Simulation of Collisionless Shocks.- Simulation of Electron Beam Instabilities and Nonlinear Potential Structures.- Kinetic Simulation of Inhomogeneous Plasma with a Variable Sized Grid System.- Low Noise Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Delta-f Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasmas.- Particle Simulation of Dusty Plasmas.- Hybrid Simulation Codes: Past, Present and Future—A Tutorial.- Hall Magnetohydrodynamics - A Tutorial.- Fluid Plasma Simulation of Coupled Systems: Ionosphere and Magnetosphere.- Global Magnetohydrodynamics — A Tutorial.- Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation.- Finite Volume TVD Schemes for Magnetohydrodynamics on Unstructered Grids.- Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation Using High Performance FORTRAN on Parallel Computers.- Numerical Schemes for the Analysis of Turbulence — A Tutorial.

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