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Solar and Astrophysical Magnetohydrodynamic Flows

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Kanaris C. Tsinganos

    1. Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 481)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xl
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  2. Solar Magnetohydrodynamic Flows

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xli-xli
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    2. Questions and Conjectures on the Origin of Stellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields

      • Eugene Parker
      Pages 1-16

    3. Magnetic Flux Tubes and the Solar Dynamo

      • Manfred Schüssler
      Pages 17-37

    4. Siphon Flows in Solar Magnetic Flux Tubes and Sunspots

      • John H. Thomas
      Pages 39-60

    5. MHD Waves in Magnetic Flux Tubes

      • Marcel Goossens, Michael Ruderman
      Pages 61-83

    6. The Dynamic Solar Corona in X-Rays with Yohkoh

      • Saku Tsuneta
      Pages 85-108

    7. The Spontaneous Formation of Current-Sheets in Astrophysical Magnetic Fields

      • B. C. Low
      Pages 109-131

    8. Magnetohydrodynamic Processes in the Solar Corona: Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections and Magnetic Helicity

      • B. C. Low
      Pages 133-149

    9. Reconnection of Magnetic Lines of Force

      • E. R. Priest
      Pages 151-170

    10. New Developments in Magnetic Reconnection Theory

      • E. R. Priest
      Pages 171-194

    11. Hydrodynamic and Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: A Rapid Overview

      • Annick Pouquet
      Pages 195-216

    12. Numerical Simulation of Solar and Astrophysical MHD Flows

      • Kazunari Shibata
      Pages 217-247

    13. Further Thoughts on the Solar Corona as a Minimum Energy System

      • P. Charbonneau, A. J. Hundhausen
      Pages 249-264

    14. Ulysses Observations of the Solar Wind Out of the Ecliptic Plane

      • W. C. Feldman, J. L. Phillips, B. L. Barraclough, C. M. Hammond
      Pages 265-300

    15. Stellar Winds

      • K. B. MacGregor
      Pages 301-335

    16. Some Implications of Solar and Stellar Activity

      • Eugene Parker
      Pages 337-354

  3. Astrophysical Magnetohydrodynamic Flows

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 355-355
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    2. Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Galactic and Extragalactic Jets

      • John A. Biretta
      Pages 357-382

    3. Exact MHD Solutions for Self-Similar Outflows

      • Edoardo Trussoni, Christophe Sauty, Kanaris Tsinganos
      Pages 383-410
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About this book

Modern observations, including recent ones with the Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed that the Universe is replete with plasma outflows from all kinds of objects, ranging from stars in all their variety to galaxies. In this masterly survey of plasma astrophysics, written by leading practitioners, the first 15 articles in Part I deal with the use of the MHD approach in several key problems of solar plasma, such as magnetoconvection and magnetic field generation, sunspots and coronal loops, magnetic nonequilibrium and coronal heating, coronal mass ejections, the acceleration of the solar wind, and stellar winds across the Main Sequence. The following 16 articles of Part II deal with the use of the same MHD approach in several central and puzzling aspects of more distant astrophysical plasmas, such as the dynamics of the interstellar medium, collimated outflows from young stellar objects and accretion disks, molecular outflows and jets associated with enigmatic binaries and symbiotic stars, relativistic flows associated with superluminal microquasars in our own galaxy, astrophysical jets from nearby galaxies, or remote active galactic nuclei and quasars, probably fuelled by supermassive black holes. The emphasis throughout is on the striking underlying similarities in the physics of all these problems.
Audience: Indispensable for solar physicists and astrophysics alike. An ideal textbook for graduate students in physics and astrophysics.

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`It will be for this, surely for the coming years, one of the major reference books on this topic. For this the book is absolutely necessary for every library of institutes, that work on the observational and theoretical side of MHD, in both parts, the solar one and the general astrophysical one.'
Reviews of Astronomical Tools, 4:2 (1996)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

    Kanaris C. Tsinganos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Solar and Astrophysical Magnetohydrodynamic Flows

  • Editors: Kanaris C. Tsinganos

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0265-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4054-6Due: 31 May 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6603-7Published: 10 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0265-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLI, 742

  • Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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