Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and Definitions
- Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Foundations
- Part II Numerical Methods
- Part III Applications
- Appendix A Hydrodynamic Equations in Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates
- Appendix B Collision Integrals in Electron-Positron Plasma
- Appendix C Collision Integrals for Weak Interactions
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and Definitions
- Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Foundations
- Part II Numerical Methods
- Part III Applications
- Appendix A Hydrodynamic Equations in Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates
- Appendix B Collision Integrals in Electron-Positron Plasma
- Appendix C Collision Integrals for Weak Interactions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The endeavor of writing this book started from a series of lectures given by the first author for students of the International Relativistic Astrophysics PhD program (IRAP PhD) supported by the Erasmus Mundus program of the European Commission. For this book the material has been expanded and more topics incorporated. It soon became clear that an updated and systematic presentation of relativistic kinetic theory and its numerous applications in astrophysics and cosmology is lacking in the literature. Some existing monographs, presenting fundamental aspects of kinetic theory, are focused on selected applications. Others, which contain applications of kinetic theory in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology, lack the presentation of fundamental concepts of relativistic kinetic theory. Moreover, none of the existing monographs discussed in depth various numerical methods developed and successfully applied in kinetic theory in the recent decades. This last observation urged us to bridge this gap in the literature. This effort eventually resulted in the current monograph, divided in three parts. Parts I and III, with the sole exception of the last chapter, were written by the first author. Part II and the last chapter of Part III were written by the second author.
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- Relativistic Kinetic TheoryWith Applications in Astrophysics and Cosmology, pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017