Lecture notes and exercises on astrophysical gas dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics

 

Geoff Bicknell

Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Australian National University

 

Here are a number of lectures on astrophysical fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. There is some overlap with these since they have been used in different courses.

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Course outline

Topics, lectures, assessment etc.

  

Lecture Notes

·       Fundamental Equations

·       Sound Waves

·       Simple Waves

·       Shock Waves

·       Stellar Winds 

·      Bubbles

·      Sedov Solution

·      MHD Equations

·      Magnetic Forces

·      MHD_Waves

·      Instabilities

Exercises

·      Exercises

Solutions

Problems 1-8

Background knowledge

·      Cartesian_Tensors

 

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Last updated 21 March 2016