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Computer Simulation of Space Plasmas Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Matsumoto, H. (Editor), Sato, T. (Editor)
ISBN: 9401088500     ISBN-13: 9789401088503
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $52.24  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics - Astrophysics
Dewey: 523.01
Series: Advances in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.22 lbs) 385 pages
 
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Computer simulation is now widely recognized as a powerful tool and useful method at the current stage of research in space plasma physics. The expected role of computer simulation is to bridge the existing gap between theories and experiments/observations and to give a profound physical insight into highly tangled and nonlinearly coupled space plasma phenomena. One of the goals of space plasma physics in 1980's and 1990's is to elucidate the quantitative causal relationships of global and local energy flows in space plasma environment and establish the space plasma physics via cooperative studies among three important elements of observations, theories and computer simulations. Based on such recognition, Dr. M. Ashour-Abdalla (UCLA/USA), Dr. R. Gendrin (CNET/FRANCE) and both of us met together at the 20th General Assembly of URSI at Washington D. C. in 1981 to discuss what we should do and what we could do, reaching a conclusion that it is time to establish an International School of Space Simulations (ISSS). The objectives of the ISSS thus organized are firstly to educate and stimulate graduate students and young sCientists, secondly to exchange information on updated simulation techniques and thirdly to have mutual discussions among observational, theoretical and simulational scientists in the field of space physics. The first ISSS were organized by Prof. P. Coleman, Prof. T. Obayashi, Dr. H. Okuda in addition to the above four members. The first ISSS was held at Kansai Seminar House in Kyoto from Nov. I to Nov. 12, 1982.