Space Plasma Simulation [electronic resource] / edited by Jörg Büchner, Manfred Scholer, Christian T. Dum.

Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasmas— A Tutorial -- Parallel 3-D Electromagnetic Particle Code Using High Performance FORTRAN: Parallel TRISTAN -- Full Particle Electromagnetic Simulation of Collisionless Shocks -- Simulation of Electron Beam Instabilities and Nonlinear Potential Structures -- Kinetic Simulation of Inhomogeneous Plasma with a Variable Sized Grid System -- Low Noise Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Delta-f Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasmas -- Particle Simulation of Dusty Plasmas -- Hybrid Simulation Codes: Past, Present and Future—A Tutorial -- Hall Magnetohydrodynamics - A Tutorial -- Fluid Plasma Simulation of Coupled Systems: Ionosphere and Magnetosphere -- Global Magnetohydrodynamics — A Tutorial -- Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation -- Finite Volume TVD Schemes for Magnetohydrodynamics on Unstructered Grids -- Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation Using High Performance FORTRAN on Parallel Computers -- Numerical Schemes for the Analysis of Turbulence — A Tutorial.

This topical volume has been written with the explicit aim to provide a high-level introductory book for a field where there were no elementary textbooks available. It addresses postgraduate students and young scientists investigating space plasma physics or planning to specialize in this field. Experienced researchers will find this book to be a comprehensive source of reference as well as a source of advanced topics for their courses.