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Informationen zum Autor Ian H. Hutchinson is a plasma physicist and Professor in the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he has been solving physical problems using computers for forty years. A fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics, he has won several awards for excellence in teaching at MIT, and is the author of the definitive textbook on making measurements of plasmas, Principles of Plasma Diagnostics (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Klappentext This well-received textbook has been designed by a team of experts for introductory courses in astronomy and astrophysics. The second edition has been updated to reflect the latest developments and observations and contains features including boxed summaries, a glossary and exercises with full solutions, making it useful for self-study. Zusammenfassung Written for senior undergraduates in all disciplines of physical science and engineering! the plain language style of this concise guide to numerical methods concentrates on developing computational skills and avoids potentially intimidating formal mathematical proofs. Including numerous worked examples and exercises! this textbook explains the practical realities of numerical techniques. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Fitting functions to data; 2. Ordinary differential equations; 3. Two-point boundary conditions; 4. Partial differential equations; 5. Diffusion: parabolic PDEs; 6. Elliptic problems and iterative matrix solution; 7. Fluid dynamics and hyperbolic equations; 8. Boltzmann's equation and its solution; 9. Energy-resolved diffusive transport; 10. Atomistic and particle-in-cell simulation; 11. Monte Carlo techniques; 12. Monte Carlo radiation transport; 13. Next steps; Appendix A. Summary of matrix algebra; Index.
