This e-book offers a self-contained creation to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), with emphasis on nonlinear approaches. The booklet outlines the normal features of MHD conception, magnetostatic equilibrium and linear balance concept. It concentrates on nonlinear thought, beginning with the evolution and saturation of person perfect and resistive instabilities, carrying on with with a close research of magnetic reconnection and concluding with a research of the main complicated nonlinear habit, that of MHD turbulence. The final chapters describe 3 very important functions of the speculation: disruptive tactics in tokomaks, MHD results within the reversed box pinch, and sunlight flares.
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