Magnetic Processes in Astrophysics Theory, Simulations, Experiments

In this work the authors draw upon their expertise in geophysical and astrophysical MHD to explore the motion of electrically conducting fluids, the so-called dynamo effect, and describe the similarities and differences between different magnetized objects. They also explain why magnetic fields are crucial to the formation of the stars, and discuss promising experiments currently being designed to investigate some of the relevant physics in the laboratory. This interdisciplinary approach will appeal to a wide audience in physics, astrophysics and geophysics.
This second edition covers such additional topics as small-scale dynamos, while also presenting the latest results and experiments.

Guenther Ruediger received his PhD from the University of Jena, Germany. He is Professor at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, and lectures at the University of Potsdam. He worked at the University of Goettingen, and the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado. He is also a former visiting professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
For his successful experiments regarding the the magneto-rotational instability theory he was awarded the 2008 Science Price of the Donor Federation of German Science.
Rainer Hollerbach is Reader in Applied Mathematics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has a PhD in Geophysics from the University of California, San Diego. He recently spent a year in Germany as a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Leonid Kitchatinov received his PhD from the Ioffe Institute for Physics and Technology in St. Petersburg. He is affiliated at the Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics (Irkutsk) and the Pulkovo Observatory of St. Petersburg. He worked in St. Andrews University and as a Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam.

1. Introduction
2. Earth and Planets
3. Stellar Rotation
4. Tachocline Theory & Magnetic Instability
5. The Stellar Dynamo
6. Small-Scale Dynamos, Shear-Flow Electrodynamics
7. The Magnetorotational Instability (MRI)
8. The Galactic Dynamo
9. Neutron Star Magnetism
10. Magnetic Couette Flow Experiments