Bernard Roberts

MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Develops a fresh mathematical approach to coronal seismology, explaining oscillatory phenomena by drawing upon original research and complex modelling techniques.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1086g
• ISBN-13: 9781108427661
• ISBN-10: 1108427669
• Artikelnr.: 55297153

Autorenporträt

Bernard Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Solar Magnetohydrodynamics at the University of St Andrews. Scotland. His important contributions to the field over the past forty years have been recognised with an election to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1997, a Saltire Scottish Science Award in 1998, and, in 2010, the Royal Astronomical Society's prestigious Chapman Medal, awarded for 'investigations of outstanding merit in solar-terrestrial physics'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. General principles
2. Waves in a uniform medium
3. Magnetically structured atmospheres
4. Surface waves
5. Magnetic slabs
6. Magnetic flux tubes
7. The twisted magnetic flux tube
8. Connection formulas
9. Gravitational effects
10. Thin flux tubes: the sausage mode
11. Thin flux tubes: the kink mode
12. Damping
13. Nonlinear aspects
14. Solar applications of MHD wave theory
References
Index.