Overview
- Presents vital knowledge for understanding fundamental processes in the solar and stellar atmospheres, as well as in laboratory plasmas and earth's magnetosphere
- Covers both theory and observations
- Presents theoretical models in analytical and phenomenological forms tailored for practical applications
- Provides learning material at the end of the chapters with problems and solutions, and guides researchers how to choose and interpret observational data
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 455)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book presents the physics of magnetic flux tubes, including their fundamental properties and collective phenomena in an ensemble of flux tubes. The physics of magnetic flux tubes is vital for understanding fundamental processes in the solar atmosphere that are shaped and governed by magnetic fields. The concept of magnetic flux tubes is also central to various magnetized media ranging from laboratory plasma and Earth's magnetosphere to planetary, stellar and galactic environments.
The book covers both theory and observations. Theoretical models presented in analytical and phenomenological forms that are tailored to practical applications. These are welded together with empirical data extending from the early pioneering observations to the most recent state-of-the-art data.
This new edition of the book is updated and contains a significant amount of new material throughout as well as four new chapters and 48 problems with solutions. Most problems make use of original papers containing fundamental results. This way, the original paper, often based on complex theory, turns into a convenient tool for practical use and quantitative analysis.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Margarita Ryutova (Kemoklidze) received her MSc and PhD from the famous Landau Theoretical Department, Kapitsa Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow and worked there until she married and moved to Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Since 1994 she lives in the United States where she has been affiliated with Stanford Lockheed Institute for Space Research in Palo Alto and Lawrence Livermore National laboratory.
She has 30 years of experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Physics and Mathematics. This includes supervising graduate and PhD students. She has published over 100 research papers and reviews in various fields of theoretical and experimental physics such as Statistical Physics, Solar Physics, Laboratory and Plasma Astrophysics, Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics, Solitons, Shocks and Selforganization, Superfluidity and Superconductivity.
Along with research in physics, she works in and has published books and essays on the history of physics and mathematics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics of Magnetic Flux Tubes
Authors: Margarita Ryutova
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96361-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96360-0Published: 13 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96361-7Published: 03 November 2018
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXVI, 747
Number of Illustrations: 190 b/w illustrations, 130 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, Applied and Technical Physics