Radiation hydrodynamics / John I. Castor.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. Introduction -- 2. A quick review of gas dynamics -- 3. Numerical hydrodynamics -- 4. Description of radiation -- 5. Steady-state transfer -- 6. The comoving-frame picture -- 7. Hydrodynamics with radiation: waves and stability -- 8. Radiation-matter interactions -- 9. Spectral line transport -- 10. Refraction and polarized light -- 11. Numerical techniques for radiation transport -- 12. Examples.

This broad treatment provides an accessible introduction to the theory and the large-scale simulation methods currently used in radiation hydrodynamics. Chapters cover all the central topics, including: a review of the fundamentals of gas dynamics; methods for computational fluid dynamics; theory of radiative transfer and of the dynamical coupling of matter and radiation; and quantum mechanics of matter-radiation interaction. Also covered are the details of spectral line formation out of thermodynamic equilibrium; the theory of refraction and transfer of polarized light and current computational methods for radiation transport, and a description of some notable applications of the theory in astrophysics and laboratory plasmas. This is a valuable text for research scientists and graduate students in physics and astrophysics.