Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Fundamentals and Case Studies of Natural Phenomena /

• Main Authors: Lorrain, Paul (Author), Lorrain, François (Author), Houle, Stéphane (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Atoms.; Matter.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Physics, general.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.; Plasma Physics.
• Physical Description: XXX, 319 p. 70 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9780387472904
• ISSN: 0941-7834

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.