Nonlinear Physics of Plasmas

✍ Scribed by Mitsuo Kono, Milos Skoric (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 540
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 62
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A nonlinearity is one of the most important notions in modern physics. A plasma is rich in nonlinearities and provides a variety of behaviors inherent to instabilities, coherent wave structures and turbulence. The book covers the basic concepts and mathematical methods, necessary to comprehend nonlinear problems widely encountered in contemporary plasmas, but also in other fields of physics and current research on self-organized structures and magnetized plasma turbulence. The analyses make use of strongly nonlinear models solved by analytical techniques backed by extensive simulations and available experiments. The text is written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers and researchers in laboratory, space and fusion plasmas.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Basic Properties of High Temperature Plasmas....Pages 3-24
The Kinetic Theory of Plasmas....Pages 25-55
The Fluid Theory of Plasmas....Pages 57-87
Waves in Plasmas....Pages 89-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Nonlinear Interactions in Plasmas....Pages 113-149
Solitons in Plasmas....Pages 151-195
Vortical Motions in Plasmas....Pages 197-252
Chaos in Plasmas....Pages 253-304
Ponderomotive Potential and Magnetization....Pages 305-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Strong Langmuir Turbulence....Pages 323-335
Wave Collapse in Plasmas....Pages 337-370
Spatiotemporal Complexity in Plasmas....Pages 371-414
Relativistic Laser Plasma Interactions....Pages 415-477
Front Matter....Pages 479-479
Multifractal Characterization of Plasma Edge Turbulence....Pages 481-507
Multi-Scale Modelling of Nonlinear Plasmas....Pages 509-518
Back Matter....Pages 519-533

✦ Subjects

Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction