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1 online resource |
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Frontiers in physics ; 72 |
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Frontiers in physics ; v. 72.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; EDITOR'S FOREWORD; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Computer and Computer Simulation; 1.2 Dynamical Systems of Many Degrees of Freedom; 1.3 Particle Simulation and Finite-Size Particles; 1.4 Limitations on Simulation ;Future Directions; 1.5 Hierarchical Nature and Simulation Methods; Chapter 2: Finite Size Particle Method; 2.1 Gridless Theory of a Finite-Size Particle System; 2.2 Dispersion Relation; 2.3 Collisional Effects Due to Finite-Size Particles; 2.4 Fluctuations; Chapter 3: Time Integration |
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3.1 Euler's First-Order Scheme3.2 Leapfrog Scheme; 3.3 Biasing Scheme; 3.4 Runge-Kutta Method; 3.5 Diffusion Equation; Chapter 4: Grid Method; 4.1 Grid Method and the Dipole Expansion; 4.2 Area Weighting Scheme; 4.3 Examples of Electrostatic Codes; 4.4 Spatially Periodic Systems; 4.5 Consequences of the Grid for the Vlasov Theory of Plasmas; 4.6 Smoother Grid Assignment; Chapter 5: Electromagnetic Model; 5.1 Electromagnetic Particle Simulation Code; 5.2 Analogy Between Electrodynamics and General Relativity; 5.3 Absorbing Boundary for the Electromagnetic Model |
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5.4 Magnetoinductive Particle Model5.5 Method of Relaxation; 5.6 Hyperbolic, Parabolic, and Elliptic Equations; 5.7 Classification of Second-Order P.D.E.; Chapter 6: Magnetohydrodynamic Model of Plasmas; 6.1 Difficulty with the Advective Term; 6.2 Lax Scheme; 6.3 Lax-Wendroff Scheme; 6.4 Leapfrog Scheme; 6.5 Flux-Corrected Transport Method; 6.6 Magnetohydrodynamic Particle Model; 6.7 Reduced Magnetohydrodynamic Equations; 6.8 Spectral Method; 6.9 Semi-Implicit Method; 6.10 Upwind Differencing; 6.11 Discussion of Various Methods; Chapter 7: Guiding-Center Method; 7.1 E x B Drift |
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7.2 Guiding-Center Model7.3 Numerical Methods for Guiding-Center Plasmas; 7.4 Polarization Drift; 7.5 Geostrophic Flows; 7.6 Finite Larmor Radius Effects; 7.7 Gyrokinetic Model; 7.8 Guiding-Center Magnetoinductive Model; Chapter 8: Hybrid Models of Plasmas; 8.1 Quasineutral Electrostatic Model; 8.2 Quasineutral Electromagnetic Model; 8.3 Particle Electron-Fluid Ion Model; Chapter 9: Implicit Particle Codes; 9.1 First Order Accurate Methods; 9.2 Implicit Time Filtering; 9.3 Decentered Lorentz Pusher; 9.4 Techniques for Direct Implicit Advancing; 9.5 Direct Implicit Electromagnetic Algorithm |
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9.6 Gyrokinetic Model (Revisited)9.7 Large Time Scale; 94;Large Spatial Scale Simulation; Chapter 10: Geometry; 10.1 MHD Particle Code; 10.2 Toroidal Corrections; 10.3 Electrostatic Particle Code; 10.4 Method of Flux Coordinates; Chapter 11: Information and Computation; 11.1 The Future of Computers; 11.2 Computation on a Cellular Automaton; 11.3 Information Processing; 11.4 Information and Entropy; 11.5 Correlation Analysis and Maximum Entropy; Chapter 12: Interaction Between Radiation and a Plasma; 12.1 Radiation from Particle Beams; 12.2 Laser Plasma Accelerators |
| Summary |
"The physics of plasmas is an extremely rich and complex subject as the variety of topics addressed in this book demonstrates. This richness and complexity demands new and powerful techniques for investigating plasma physics. An outgrowth from his graduate course teaching, now with corrections, Tajima's text provides not only a lucid introduction to computational plasma physics, but also offers the reader many examples of the way numerical modeling, properly handled, can provide valuable physical understanding of the nonlinear aspects so often encountered in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. Included here are computational methods for modern nonlinear physics as applied to hydrodynamic turbulence, solitons, fast reconnection of magnetic fields, anomalous transports, dynamics of the sun, and more. The text contains examples of problems now solved using computational techniques including those concerning finite-size particles, spectral techniques, implicit differencing, gyrokinetic approaches, and particle simulation."--Provided by publisher |
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"Advanced book program." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 10, 2020) |
| Subject |
Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Mathematical models
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Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Data processing
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Physics.
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Physics
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physics.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Mathematical models
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Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Data processing
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Physics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429501470 |
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0429501471 |
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9780429970023 |
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0429970021 |
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9780429981104 |
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0429981104 |
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