Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas (Cambridge Monographs on Plasma Physics)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 29, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780521020367
Subjects: Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Magnetism; Physics; Magnetic reconnection Magnetic reconnection; Medical-General; Science / Magnetism; Science / Physics; Science-Physics; Magnetic reconnection; Plasma (Ionized gases)
First sentence: Since the early 1950s, when manetohydrodynamics - MHD in short - became an established theory and along with it the concept of a "frozen-in" magnetic field within an electrically conducting fluid, the problem of how magnetic energy could be released in such a fluid has been generally acknowledged.