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Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics (Hardcover, New)
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Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics (Hardcover, New)
Series: International Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3
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Spacecraft have explored the interplanetary medium between the
orbits of Mercury and Pluto, revealing the exotic and beautiful
nature of the environment of our planet and sun. This book
summarizes the principle results of these historic expeditions.
Magnetohydrodynamics provides the framework for interpreting the
observations, and the observations have greatly enriched the
subject of magnetohydrodynamics. Numerous figures in the book
illustrate the essential observations and fundamental concepts.
Simple equations summarize basic physical and phenomenological
relations observed in the interplanetary medium. Fundamental
objects observed in the interplanetary medium include various types
of MHD shocks, tangenital and rotational discontinuities, and
force-free field configurations. Fundamental processes observed in
the interplanetary medium include the interaction among shocks
(which can be classified using catastrophic theory), the formation
of merged interaction region regions associated with various types
of flows, the destruction of flows, the growth of the
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and formation of a heliospheric vortex
street, the development of multifractal fluctuations on various
scales, and the evolution of multifractal intermittent turbulence.
These physical objects and processes are of fundamental interest in
themselves. The knowledge about them derived from interplanetary
investigations has applications to magnetospheric physics, solar
physics, cosmic ray physics and astrophysics. The book contains an
extensive set of reference that gives the readers access to the
detailed results in the literature.
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