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By Dieter Biskamp
This publication offers a complete creation to the speculation of magnetic box line reconnection, now a huge topic in plasma physics. Biskamp specializes in some of the reconnection mechanisms dominating magnetic methods below the several plasma stipulations encountered in astrophysical platforms and in laboratory fusion units. The booklet comprises significant components: the 1st bargains with the classical resistive method, whereas the second one offers an summary of weakly collisional or collisionless plasmas. functions basically difficulty astrophysical phenomena and dynamo idea, with emphasis at the sunlight and geodynamo, in addition to magnetospheric substorms--the such a lot unbelievable reconnection occasions within the magnetospheric plasma. The theoretical strategies and effects additionally follow on to reconnection strategies in laboratory plasmas, specifically the sawtooth phenomenon in tokamaks. The ebook may be of worth to graduate scholars and researchers drawn to magnetic approaches either in astrophysical and laboratory plasma physics.
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