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020 _a9780511599958 (ebook)
020 _z9780521582889 (hardback)
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_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aQC718.5.M3
_bB53 2000
082 0 0 _a538/.6
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100 1 _aBiskamp, D.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMagnetic reconnection in plasmas /
_cDieter Biskamp.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2000.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 387 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge monographs on plasma physics ;
_v3
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 0 _tBasic kinematic concepts --
_tCurrent sheets --
_tResistive instabilities --
_tDynamo theory --
_tNoncollisional reconnection processes --
_tMicroscopic theory of magnetic reconnection --
_tMagnetospheric substorms.
520 _aThis book, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory of magnetic field line reconnection, now a major subject in plasma physics. The book focuses on the various reconnection mechanisms dominating magnetic processes under the different plasma conditions encountered in astrophysical systems and in laboratory fusion devices. The book consists of two major parts: the first deals with the classical resistive approach, while the second presents an overview of weakly collisional or collisionless plasmas. Applications primarily concern astrophysical phenomena and dynamo theory, with emphasis on the solar and geodynamo, as well as magnetospheric substorms, the most spectacular reconnection events in the magnetospheric plasma. The theoretical procedures and results also apply directly to reconnection processes in laboratory plasmas, in particular the sawtooth phenomenon in tokamaks. The book will be of value to graduate students and researchers interested in magnetic processes both in astrophysical and laboratory plasma physics.
650 0 _aMagnetic reconnection.
650 0 _aPlasma (Ionized gases)
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521582889
830 0 _aCambridge monographs on plasma physics ;
_v3.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511599958
999 _c517816
_d517814