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Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas Hardcover - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Dieter Biskamp


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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory of magnetic field line reconnection, now a major subject in plasma physics. Biskamp focuses on the various reconnection mechanisms dominating magnetic processes under the different plasma conditions encountered in astrophysical systems and in laboratory fusion devices. The book consists of two major parts: the first deals with the classical resistive approach, while the second presents an overview of weakly collisional or collisionless plasmas. Applications primarily concern astrophysical phenomena and dynamo theory, with emphasis on the solar and geodynamo, as well as magnetospheric substorms--the most spectacular reconnection events in the magnetospheric plasma. The theoretical procedures and results also apply directly to reconnection processes in laboratory plasmas, in particular the sawtooth phenomenon in tokamaks. The book will be of value to graduate students and researchers interested in magnetic processes both in astrophysical and laboratory plasma physics.

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Since the early 1950s, when manetohydrodynamics - MHD in short - became an established theory and along with it the concept of a "frozen-in" magnetic field within an electrically conducting fluid, the problem of how magnetic energy could be released in such a fluid has been generally acknowledged.

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  • Title Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas
  • Author Dieter Biskamp
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 404
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2000-09-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780521582889 / 0521582881
  • Weight 2.1 lbs (0.95 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 7.1 x 0.9 in (25.15 x 18.03 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Plasma (Ionized gases), Magnetic reconnection
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99087680
  • Dewey Decimal Code 538.6

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  • Scitech Book News, 03/01/2001, Page 51
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