Radiation Hydrodynamics

John Castor

355 pages, parution le 01/10/2004

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This broad and up-to-date treatment provides an accessible introduction to the theory and the large-scale simulation methods currently used in radiation hydrodynamics. Chapters cover all the central topics, including: a review of the fundamentals of gas dynamics; methods for computational fluid dynamics; theory of radiative transfer and of the dynamical coupling of matter and radiation; and quantum mechanics of matter-radiation interaction. Also covered are the details of spectral line formation out of thermodynamic equilibrium; the theory of refraction and transfer of polarised light and current computational methods for radiation transport, and a description of some notable applications of the theory in astrophysics and laboratory plasmas. This is a valuable text for research scientists and graduate students in physics and astrophysics.

L'auteur - John Castor

John Castor received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1967, for work involving radiation hydrodynamics in pulsating stars. He then joined the University of Colorado and the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, where he worked on the foundations of radiation hydrodynamics and spectral line formation in high-velocity flows. This led to a very successful theory of radiatively driven stellar winds. From 1981 he has been a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, working on problems in high-energy-density physics, includingthe interpretation of experiments with high-power lasers.

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Inroduction
A quick review of gas dynamics
Numerical hydrodynamics
Description of radiation
Steady-state transfer
The commoving-frame picture
Hydrodynamics with radiation : waves and stability
Radiation-matter interactions
Spectral line transport
Refraction and polarized light
Numerical techniques for radiation transport
Examples

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	John Castor
Parution	01/10/2004
Nb. de pages	355
Format	18 x 25,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	910g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521833097