David Alan Clarke

A First Course in Magnetohydrodynamics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text introduces magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) from a fluid dynamics perspective at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Problem sets extend key concepts with fully-worked solutions available to instructors. Lesson plans are also available, including large-font lessons designed for 'flipped-style' classes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009381475
• ISBN-10: 1009381474
• Artikelnr.: 70942792

Autorenporträt

David Clarke, a recently retired professor at Saint Mary's University, has taught undergraduate physics courses for thirty years. As co-developer of the original ZEUS MHD code and primary developer of ZEUS-3D (which he uses for his research in astrophysical jets), he's made ZEUS-3D available open-source to hundreds of investigators worldwide.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. 1-D MHD in Ten Weeks: 1. The fundamentals of Hydrodynamics
2. Selected applications of Hydrodynamics
3. The Hydrodynamical Riemann problem
4. The fundamentals of Magnetohydrodynamics
5. MHD waves and discontinuities. 6. The MHD Riemann problem
Part II. Additional Topics in (M)HD: 7. Fluid instabilities
8. Viscid Hydrodynamics
9. Steady-state MHD
10. Non-ideal MHD
Appendices: A. Essentials of vector calculus
B. Essentials of Electrodynamics
C. The 'Conics of PDEs
D. The secant method
E. Roots of a Cubic
F. Sixth-order Runge-Kutta
G. Coriolis' theorem
H. The diffusion equation
Variable glossary
References
Index.