Relativistic Fluids and Magneto-fluids: With Applications in Astrophysics and Plasma Physics (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

A unified and systematic treatment of the main results and techniques of relativistic fluid dynamics with an emphasis on waves and shock waves. The first four chapters provide an introduction to the fundamental principles of relativistic fluid dynamics and magneto-fluids. The remaining chapters present specific topics, including non-linear electromagnetic waves in relativistic cold plasmas, relativistic asymptotic waves, and relativistic shock waves. Examples of the applications of the theory to plasma physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics are presented. This highly acclaimed series of monographs provides introductory accounts of specialized topics in mathematical physics for graduate students and research workers. The monographs in this series are of outstanding scholarship and written by those at the very frontiers of research. Subject areas covered include cosmology, astrophysics, relativity theory, particle physics, quantum theory, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics, plasma physics and the theory of chaos In Relativistic Fluids and Magneto-fluids there are chapters on mathematical structure, singluar hypersurfaces in space-time, propagation of weak discontinuities, relativistic simple waves, relativistic geometrical optics, relativistic asymptotic waves, relativistic shock waves, and stability of relativistic shock waves. Relativistic fluid models are of considerable interest in several areas of astrophysics, plasma physics, and nuclear physics. A. M. Anile. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [325]-333.