Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics at Laser Irradiation: Notes from lectures presented during the winter semester 1978/79 at the Department of Laser Physics, Institute of Applied Physics, University Berne, Switzerland, written under editorial assistance of P. Schwarzenbach

✍ Scribed by Heinrich Hora (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 102
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Aim and scope....Pages 1-6
Rewiew of phenomena and results....Pages 7-18
Elements of the microscopic plasma theory....Pages 19-36
Hydrodynamics....Pages 37-44
Self-similarity model....Pages 45-57
Plasma dynamics and Lorentz theory....Pages 58-75
Waves in inhomogeneous plasma....Pages 76-95
Equation of motion....Pages 96-112
Momentum transfer and the abraham-minkowski-problem....Pages 113-128
Numerical and experimental examples — solitons....Pages 129-164
Striated motion and resonance absorption....Pages 165-188
Self-focussing of laser beams in plasma....Pages 189-210
Laser compression of plasma for nuclear fusion....Pages 211-222

✦ Subjects

Physics, general