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Tajima's text provides not only a lucid introduction to computational plasma physics, but also offers the reader many examples of the way numerical modeling, properly handled, can provide valuable physical understanding of the nonlinear aspects so often encountered in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.
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Editor’s Foreword , Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Finite Size Particle Method , Time Integration , Grid Method , Electromagnetic Model , Magnetohydro-Dynamic Model of Plasmas , Guiding-Center Method , Hybrid Models of Plasmas , Implicit Particle Codes , Geometry , Information and Computation , Interaction between Radiation and A Plasma , Drift Waves And Plasma Turbulence , Magnetic Reconnection , Transport , Epilogue: Numerical Laboratory , Credits
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Toshi Tajima
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Tajima's text provides not only a lucid introduction to computational plasma physics, but also offers the reader many examples of the way numerical modeling, properly handled, can provide valuable physical understanding of the nonlinear aspects so often encountered in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.