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.

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 tha...