Advances in nonlinear dynamos
By: edited by Antonio Ferriz-Mas and Manuel Núñez.
Contributors: Ferriz-Mas, Antonio.; Núñez, Manuel.
Series: Fluid mechanics of astrophysics and geophysics ;; v. 9
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Dynamo theory (Cosmic physics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The field, the mean and the meaning / Peter Hoyng; title: Fast dynamos / David Galloway; title: On the theory of convection in the Earth's core / Stanislav Braginsky and Paul H. Roberts; title: Dynamo action of magnetostrophic waves / Dieter Schmitt; title: Magnetic flux tubes and the dynamo problem / Manfred Schüssler and Antonio Ferriz-Mas; title: Physics of the solar cycle / Günther Rüdiger and Rainer Arlt; title: Highly supercritical convection in strong magnetic fields / Keith Julien, Edgar Knobloch and Steve Tobias; title: Thin aspect ratio [alpha][omega]-dynamos in galactic discs and stellar shells / Andrew M. Soward; title: Computational aspects of astrophysical MHD and turbulence / Axel Brandenburg; title: Topological quantities in magnetohydrodynamics / Mitchell A. Berger.