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Radiation Hydrodynamics

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This book began with a series of lectures given for the summer School on Radiactive Transfer and Radiation Hydrodynamics at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo in June, 1999. Those talks focused on the specifics of the dynamic coupling of radiation and matter and on the detailed processes of the interaction.

It is the nature of such lectures that they are more descriptive rather than mathematically inclined. The years since the lectures have been spent in providing a numerical basis for many of the areas that were light in those areas.

Note that radiation as discussed in this book is part of the very high densigy radiation seen in astrophysics in areas like exploding stars. It is not related to the much lower radiation levels seen on Earth or in medical applications. Within it's selected areas of interest it represents the current state of the art in the field.