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Space Plasma Simulation / edited by Jörg Büchner, Christian Dum, Manfred Scholer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lecture Notes in Physics, 0075-8450 ; 615
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space sciences.
- Earth sciences.
- Geophysics.
- Computer science--Mathematics.
- Computer science.
- Physics.
- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).
- Earth Sciences, general.
- Geophysics/Geodesy.
- Computational Science and Engineering.
- Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.
- Local Subjects:
- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).
- Earth Sciences, general.
- Geophysics/Geodesy.
- Computational Science and Engineering.
- Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 351 pages : illustrations (colour and black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2003.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-540-36530-3
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