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Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in Astrophysics

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Editors:
  1. Edith Falgarone

    1. Laboratoire de Radioastronomie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Cedex 05, France

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  2. Thierry Passot

    1. Observatoire de la Côte d’azur, CNRS, Nice Cédex 4, France

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 614)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. MHD Turbulence

    1. The Evolving Phenomenological View on Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

      • Wolf-Christian Müller, Dieter Biskamp
      Pages 3-27

    2. Coronal Heating and Reduced MHD

      • Sean Oughton, Pablo Dmitruk, William H. Matthaeus
      Pages 28-55

    3. MHD Turbulence: Scaling Laws and Astrophysical Implications

      • Jungyeon Cho, Alex Lazarian, Ethan T. Vishniac
      Pages 56-98

  3. Numerical Approches

    1. Numerical Simulations of Magnetic Fields in Astrophysical Turbulence

      • Ellen G. Zweibel, Fabian Heitsch, Yuhong Fan
      Pages 101-126

    2. Adaptive Mesh Refinement in MHD Modeling. Realization, Tests and Application

      • Udo Ziegler
      Pages 127-151

  4. Turbulence in the ISM

    1. Observations of Interstellar Magnetic Fields

      • Richard Crutcher, Carl Heiles, Thomas Troland
      Pages 155-181

    2. MHD Turbulence in Star-Forming Regions and the Interstellar Medium

      • Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
      Pages 182-212

    3. Thermal Instability and Magnetic Pressure in the Turbulent Interstellar Medium

      • Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni, Adriana Gazol, Thierry Passot, Javier Sánchez-Salcedo
      Pages 213-251

    4. Developing Diagnostics of Molecular Clouds Using Numerical MHD Simulations

      • Eve C. Ostriker
      Pages 252-270

    5. Star Formation and the Initial Mass Function

      • Åke Nordlund, Paolo Padoan
      Pages 271-298

    6. The Structure and Dynamics of Filamentary Molecular Clouds

      • Jason D. Fiege
      Pages 299-328

    7. Numerical Simulations of MHD Turbulence in Accretion Disks

      • Steven A. Balbus, John F. Hawley
      Pages 329-348

  5. Current Issues in Reconnection and Astrophysical Dynamos

    1. Recent Developments in Collisionless Reconnection Theory: Applications to Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas

      • Amitava Bhattacharjee, Zhiwei W. Ma, Xiaogang Wang
      Pages 351-375

    2. Problems and Progress in Astrophysical Dynamos

      • Ethan T. Vishniac, Alex Lazarian, Jungyeon Cho
      Pages 376-401

    3. The Helicity Issue in Large Scale Dynamos

      • Axel Brandenburg
      Pages 402-431

    4. Recent Developments in Magnetic Dynamo Theory

      • Eric G. Blackman
      Pages 432-463
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About this book

This book contains review articles of most of the topics addressed at the conf- ence on Simulations of Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in astrophysics: recent achievements and perspectives which took place from July 2 to 6, 2001 at the Institut Henri Poincar´e in Paris. We made the choice to publish these lectures in a tutorial form so that they can be read by a broad audience. As a result, this book does not give an exhaustive view of all the subjects addressed during the conference. The main objective of this workshop which gathered about 90 scientists from di?erent ?elds, was to present and confront recent results on the topic of t- bulence in magnetized astrophysical environments. A second objective was to discuss the latest generation of numerical codes, such as those using adaptive mesh re?nement (AMR) techniques. During a plenary discussion at the end of the workshop discussions were held on several topics, often at the heart of vivid controversies. Topics included the timescale for the dissipation of magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence, the role of boundary conditions, the characteristics of imbalanced turbulence, the validity of the polytropic approach to Alfv´en waves support within interst- lar clouds, the source of turbulence inside clouds devoid of stellar activity, the timescale for star formation, the Alfv´en Mach number of interstellar gas motions, the formation process for helical ?elds in the interstellar medium. The impact of small upon large scales was also discussed.

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"The combination of a state-of-the-art review with a tutorial approach will be attractive both to scientists active in the field as well as an introductory text for no-specialists."(Astrophysics and Space Science 2004, vol. 293, page 461-462)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire de Radioastronomie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Edith Falgarone

  • Observatoire de la Côte d’azur, CNRS, Nice Cédex 4, France

    Thierry Passot

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