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978-3-540-76967-5

Jets From Young Stars III : Numerical MHD and Instabilities

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-76967-5

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This volume contains the lecture notes of the Third JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars focussing on Numerical MHD and Instabilities. The introductory lectures presented here cover the basic concepts of the numerical methods for the integration of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic equations and of the applications of these methods to the treatment of the instabilities relevant for the physics of stellar jets. The first part of the book contains an introduction to the finite difference and finite volume methods for computing the solutions of hyperbolic partial differential equations and a discussion of approximate Riemann solvers for both hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic problems. The second part is devoted to the discussion of some of the main instability processes that may take place in stellar jets, namely: the Kelvin-Helmholtz, the radiative shock, the pressure driven and the thermal instabilities.


Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Computational Hydrodynamics, Computational Magnetohydrodynamics, Hydrodynamical Instabilities, Magnetohydrodynamical Instabilities, Protostellar Jets, differential equation, dynamics, hyperbolic equation, hyperbolic partial differential equation, numerical methods, partial differential equation