Physics of Magnetic Flux Tubes

by Margarita Ryutova

Overview

This book is the first account of the physics of magnetic flux tubes from their fundamental properties to collective phenomena in an ensembles of flux tubes. The physics of magnetic flux tubes is absolutely vital for understanding fundamental physical processes in the solar atmosphere shaped and governed by magnetic fields.
High-resolution and high cadence observations from recent space and ground-based instruments taken simultaneously at different heights and temperatures not only show the ubiquity of filamentary structure formation but also allow to study how various events are interconnected by system of magnetic flux tubes. The book covers both theory and observations. Theoretical models presented in analytical and phenomenological forms are tailored for practical applications. These are welded with state-of-the-art observations from early decisive ones to the most recent data that open a new phase-space for exploring the Sun and sun-like stars. Concept of magnetic flux tubes is central to various magnetized media ranging from laboratory plasma and Earth's magnetosphere to planetary, stellar and galactic environments The book is a valuable resource for graduate students, solar physicists, astronomers, laboratory and space plasma physicists, geophysicists, and specialists in gas- and hydrodynamics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783662511916
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	04/14/2015
Series:	Astrophysics and Space Science Library , #417
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Pages:	559
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

Margarita Ryutova (Kemoklidze) received her MSc and PhD from the famous Landau Theoretical Department, Kapitsa Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow and worked there until she married and moved to Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Since 1994 she lives in the United States where she has been affiliated with Stanford Lockheed Institute for Space Research in Palo Alto and Lawrence Livermore National laboratory.

She has 30 years of experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Physics and Mathematics. This includes supervising graduate and PhD students. She has published over 100 research papers and reviews in various fields of theoretical and experimental physics such as Statistical Physics, Solar Physics, Laboratory and Plasma Astrophysics, Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics, Solitons, Shocks and Selforganization, Superfluidity and Superconductivity.

Along with research in physics, she works in and has published books and essays on the history of physics and mathematics.

Table of Contents

Preface.- The Sun's Magnetic elds.- A Closer Look - Small Scale Structures.- Properties of An Isolated Flux Tube - Theory and Modeling- Waves and Oscillations in a Flux Tube- Magnetosonic Streaming- Wave Phenomena in Rare ed Ensembles of Flux Tubes- Wave Phenomena in Dense Conglomerate of Flux Tubes- Flux Tube Dynamics in the Presence of Mass Flows- Moving Magnetic Features (MMFs)- Reconnection of Flux Tubes - Post-reconnection Processes I - Theory and Observations - Post-reconnection Processes II - Theory and Observations - Electro-magnetic Coupling Throughout the Solar Atmosphere - The Corona and Ensembles of Magnetic Flux Tubes - Quiescent Prominences - Filamentary Structures in Universe.