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An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity
Tom Tien Sun Chang
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Description for An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity
hardcover. This book for graduate students and researchers introduces examples of complexity phenomena related to observed plasma processes in the space environment. Series: Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 77 b/w illus. 22 colour illus. BIC Classification: PHFP; PHVJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 263 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 660.
An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity considers select examples of complexity phenomena related to observed plasma processes in the space environment, such as those pertaining to the solar corona, the interplanetary medium, and Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. This book provides a guided tour of the ideas behind forced and/or self-organized criticality, intermittency, multifractals, and the theory of the dynamic renormalization group, with applications to space plasma complexity. There is much to be explored and studied in this relatively new and developing field. Readers will be able to apply the concepts and methodologies espoused in this introduction to their own research ... Read more
An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity considers select examples of complexity phenomena related to observed plasma processes in the space environment, such as those pertaining to the solar corona, the interplanetary medium, and Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. This book provides a guided tour of the ideas behind forced and/or self-organized criticality, intermittency, multifractals, and the theory of the dynamic renormalization group, with applications to space plasma complexity. There is much to be explored and studied in this relatively new and developing field. Readers will be able to apply the concepts and methodologies espoused in this introduction to their own research ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521642620
SKU
V9780521642620
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99-15
About Tom Tien Sun Chang
Tom Chang is internationally known for his contributions to the physics of complexity, self-organized criticality, intermittent turbulence, and charged-particle acceleration processes in space plasmas. For thirty-five years, he has led theoretical geo/cosmo plasma research at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Physical Society and ... Read more
Reviews for An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity
'… the book is both readable and authoritative. It is written by an expert practitioner and provides a challenging and rewarding read for students as well as for professionals …' Terry Robinson, The Observatory '[An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity] will be primarily of special interest to students and researchers in the field of space plasma to learn how ... Read more