Space Plasma Simulation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Büchner, Jörg (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dum, Christian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Scholer, Manfred (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 615
• Subjects: Space sciences.; Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Computer mathematics.; Physics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Earth Sciences, general.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.

This topical volume has been written with the explicit aim to provide a high-level introductory book for a field where there were no elementary textbooks available. It addresses postgraduate students and young scientists investigating space plasma physics or planning to specialize in this field. Exp...

Table of Contents:

• Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasmas- A Tutorial
• Parallel 3-D Electromagnetic Particle Code Using High Performance FORTRAN: Parallel TRISTAN
• Full Particle Electromagnetic Simulation of Collisionless Shocks
• Simulation of Electron Beam Instabilities and Nonlinear Potential Structures
• Kinetic Simulation of Inhomogeneous Plasma with a Variable Sized Grid System
• Low Noise Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Delta-f Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasmas
• Particle Simulation of Dusty Plasmas
• Hybrid Simulation Codes: Past, Present and Future-A Tutorial
• Hall Magnetohydrodynamics - A Tutorial
• Fluid Plasma Simulation of Coupled Systems: Ionosphere and Magnetosphere
• Global Magnetohydrodynamics - A Tutorial
• Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation
• Finite Volume TVD Schemes for Magnetohydrodynamics on Unstructered Grids
• Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation Using High Performance FORTRAN on Parallel Computers
• Numerical Schemes for the Analysis of Turbulence - A Tutorial.