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Dynamos

Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School 2007

  • 1st Edition, Volume 88 - August 13, 2008
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Philippe Cardin, L.G. Cugliandolo
  • Language: English

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Description

Dynamos is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "Dynamos".

Key features

  • Provides a pedagogical introduction to topics in Dynamos
  • Addresses each topic from the basis to the most recent developments
  • Covers the lectures by internationally-renowned and leading experts

Readership

Graduate students, researchers

Table of contents

1. T. Alboussière, Fundamentals of MHD

2. C.A. Jones, Dynamo Theory

3. P. Olson, Planetary Magnetism

4. A. Shukurov and Dmitry Sokoloff, Astrophysical Dynamos

5. B. Dubrulle, Turbulence and Dynamo

6. Y. Ponty, Numerical Modeling of Liquid Metal Dynamo Experiments

7. M. Dumberry, Taylor's Constraint and Torsional Oscillations

8. C.C. Finlay, Waves in the Presence of Magnetic Fields, Rotation and Convection

9. S. Stanley, Dynamos of the Ice Giants

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 88
  • Published: October 14, 2008
  • Language: English

About the editors

PC

Philippe Cardin

Affiliations and expertise
Maison des Géosciences, LGIT, Grenoble, France

LC

L.G. Cugliandolo

Affiliations and expertise
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energi, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

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