Computational Plasma Physics With Applications to Fusion and Astrophysics
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Book Description
Computational physics-the use of modern high speed computers to carry out numerical modeling of physical situations that cannot be addressed by analytic theory or experiments-is a distinct field of physics. Tajima has played a leading role in developing this approach to the physics of plasmas and particle beams. 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. This 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.
About the Author
Toshiki Tajima is Director General at the Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute in Kyoto. He is the author of Plasma Astrophysics (Westview Press, 2002). His research interests include accelerator physics and computational physics. He is the author, with Kazunari Shibata, of Plasma Astrophysics.
Computational Plasma Physics With Applications to Fusion and Astrophysics (Frontiers in Physics S.),Toshiki Tajima,Westview Press,0813342112,Astrophysics,Astrophysics & Space Science,Physics,Plasma Physics,Science,Science/Mathematics
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