High-Energy-Density Physics: Fundamentals, Inertial Fusion, and Experimental Astrophysics

by R. Paul Drake

The raw numbers of high-energy-density physics are amazing: shock waves at hundreds of km/s (approaching a million km per hour), temperatures of millions of degrees, and pressures that exceed 100 million atmospheres. This book introduces the fundamental tools and discoveries of high-energy-density physics. It surveys the production of high-energy-density conditions, the fundamental plasma and hydrodynamic models that can describe them and the problem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642067263
• ISBN13: 9783642067266
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"