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Solar Magnetohydrodynamics

I have felt the need for a book on the theory of solar magnetic fields for some time now. Most books about the Sun are written by observers or by theorists from other branches of solar physics, whereas those on magnetohydrodynamics do not deal extensively with solar applications. I had thought of wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Priest, E.R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1982, 1982
Edition:1st ed. 1982
Series:Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs
Subjects:
Astrophysics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 4.8. Summary of Magnetoacoustic-Gravity Waves
  • 4.9. Five-Minute Oscillations
  • 4.10. Waves in a Strongly Inhomogeneous Medium
  • 5. Shock waves
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Hydrodynamic Shocks
  • 5.3. Perpendicular Shocks
  • 5.4. Oblique Shocks
  • 6. Heating of the upper atmosphere
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Models for Atmospheric Structure
  • 6.3. Acoustic Wave Heating
  • 6.4. Magnetic Heating
  • 6.5. Coronal Loops
  • 7. Instability
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Linearised Equations
  • 7.3. Normal Mode Method
  • 7.4. Variational (or Energy) Method
  • 7.5. Summary of Instabilities
  • 8. Sunspots
  • 8.1. Magnetoconvection
  • 8.2. Magnetic Buoyancy
  • 8.3. Cooling of Sunspots
  • 8.4. Equilibrium Structure of Sunspots
  • 8.5. The Sunspot Penumbra
  • 8.6. Evolution of a Sunspot
  • 8.7. Intense Flux Tubes
  • 9. Dynamo theory
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Cowling’s Theorem
  • 9.3.Qualitative Dynamo Action
  • 9.4. Kinematic Dynamos
  • 9.5. Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamos
  • 1. A description of the sun
  • 1.1. Brief History
  • 1.2. Overall Properties
  • 1.3.The Quiet Sun
  • 1.4. Transient Features
  • 2. The basic equations of magnetohydrodynamics
  • 2.1. Electromagnetic Equations
  • 2.2. Plasma Equations
  • 2.3. Energy Equations
  • 2.4. Summary of Equations
  • 2.5. Dimensionless Parameters
  • 2.6. Consequences of the Induction Equation
  • 2.7. The Lorentz Force
  • 2.8. Some Theorems
  • 2.9. Summary of Magnetic Flux Tube Behaviour
  • 2.10. Summary of Current Sheet Behaviour
  • 3. Magnetohydrostatics
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Plasma Structure in a Prescribed Magnetic Field
  • 3.3. The Structure of Magnetic Flux Tubes (Cylindrically Symmetric)
  • 3.4. Current-Free Fields
  • 3.5. Force-Free Fields
  • 3.6. Magnetohydrostatic Fields
  • 4. Waves
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Sound Waves
  • 4.3. Magnetic Waves
  • 4.4. Internal Gravity Waves
  • 4.5. Inertial Waves
  • 4.6. Magnetoacoustic Waves
  • 4.7. Acoustic-Gravity Waves
  • 9.6. Difficulties with Dynamo Theory
  • 10. Solar flares
  • 10.1. Magnetic Reconnection
  • 10.2. Simple-Loop Flare
  • 10.3. Two-Ribbon Flare
  • 11. Prominences
  • 11.1. Formation
  • 11.2. Magnetohydrostatics of Support in a Simple Arcade
  • 11.3. Support in Configurations with Helical Fields
  • 11.4. Coronal Transients
  • 12. The solar wind
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.2. Parker’s Solution
  • 12.3. Models for a Spherical Expansion
  • 12.4. Streamers and Coronal Holes
  • 12.5. Extra Effects
  • Appendix I. Units
  • Appendix II. Useful Values and Expressions
  • Appendix III. Notation
  • References

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