Talks at Nordita Programs [before October 2010]

Astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics

by Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)

Europe/Stockholm
122:026

122:026

Description
Course webpage: http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb/teach/MHD/schedule/description.html. A course of 5 weeks. Each week consists of three 1.5 hr lecture. The goal of the course is to understand: (a) the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), (b) waves and instabilities, (c) shocks, solar wind, accretion, (d) fundamental aspects of turbulence and convection, (e) dynamo theory, and (f) numerical techniques for MHD and turbulence.