Eric Priest

Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This advanced textbook reviews the complex interaction between the Sun's plasma atmosphere and its magnetic field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 207mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1578g
• ISBN-13: 9780521854719
• ISBN-10: 0521854717
• Artikelnr.: 40129489

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. A description of the Sun
2. Basic equations of MHD
3. Magnetohydrostatics
4. Waves
5. Shock waves
6. Magnetic reconnection
7. Instability
8. Dynamo theory
9. Magnetoconvection and sunspots
10. Heating of the upper atmosphere
11. Prominences
12. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections
13. The solar wind
Appendices
References
Index.