Transport Processes in Space Physics and Astrophysics

• Main Author: Zank, Gary P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 877
• Subjects: Physics.; Astrophysics.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Statistics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Plasma Physics.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

Transport Processes in Space Physics and Astrophysics is aimed at graduate level students to provide the necessary mathematical and physics background to understand the transport of gases, charged particle gases, energetic charged particles, turbulence, and radiation in  an astrophysical and space p...

Table of Contents:

• Statistical Background
• The Boltzmann transport equation
• Charged particle transport in a collisional magnetized plasma
• Charged particle transport in a collisionless magnetized plasma
• The transport of low frequency turbulence
• Radiative transport.