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Magneto-Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Case Studies of Natural Phenomena (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) [Hardcover]

Paul Lorrain (Author), Francois Lorrain (Author), Stephane Houle (Author)

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August 30, 2006 0387335420 978-0387335421 1

The part "Fundamentals" is novel, first in that it stresses the use of electric currents in Magneto-Fluid-Dynamics. As a rule, authors discuss magnetic field lines without ever referring to the required electric currents. Second, the book stresses the importance of electric space charges inside conductors that move in magnetic fields. It is the custom to disregard both the required electric currents and the field of the space charges.

The "Case Studies" concern solar phenomena and the Earth´s magnetic field, stressing electric currents and electric space charges. Each case study is based on a published, or soon to be published, paper.


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From the reviews: “This text is an interesting, and clearly structured introduction to dynamo theory inspired from the study of natural dynamos, particularly within the solar environment. It provides an enticing flavour of the modelling of a wide variety of electromagnetic phenomena. … The text is intended primarily for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in physics, geophysics and astrophysics. … The essentially independent case studies make this book ideal to dip in and out of and to use as a source of reference on magneto-fluid phenomena … .” (Anne Juel, Contemporary Physics, Vol. 51 (1), 2010)

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This book concerns the generation of electric currents and of electric space charges inside conducting media that move in magnetic fields.

The authors postulate nothing but the Maxwell equations. They discuss at length the disk dynamo, which serves as a model for the natural self-excited dynamos that generate magnetic fields such as that of sunspots.

There are 36 Examples and 13 Case Studies. The Case Studies concern solar phenomena -- magnetic elements, sunspots, spicules, coronal loops -- and the Earth's magnetic field.


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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
solar coronal loops, solar physics, magnetic flux ropes, local currents, broad proton beam, magnetic pinching force, magnetic force density, ohmic power dissipation, law for moving conductors, disk dynamo model, natural dynamos, flux tube radius, convecting plasma, magnetic force points, axisymmetric magnetic field, seed magnetic field, flux rope, convection current density, magnetic flux tube, flux coil, electrostatic surface charges, circuital law, thin solenoid, azimuthal magnetic field, plasma velocity
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Case Study, The Faraday Disk, Moving Conductors, Nine Examples, The Equations, Simple Model, Pierre de Maricourt, Constant Magnetic Fields, Special Relativity, The Self-excited Disk Dynamo, Electromagnetic Waves, The Thin Solenoid, The Maxwell Equations, The Early History, The Disk Dynamo Model, Law of Faraday, Time-dependent Magnetic Fields, Oliver Heaviside, Differential Form, Solar Spicules
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