The Framework Of Plasma Physics (Frontiers in Physics)

✍ Scribed by Richard D. Hazeltine

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides an excellent introduction to the fundamental physics of plasmas, which comprise most of the matter in the universe. It is based on lectures that were used for an introductory plasma course at the graduate level.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Editor's Foreword
Table of Contents
Preface
1: The Nature of Plasma
1.1 Plasma and plasma physics
1.2 Time and distance scales
1.3 Magnetized plasma
2: Charged Particle Motion
2.1 Magnetization
2.2 Motion in constant fields
2.3 Method of averaging
2.4 Guiding center motion
2.5 Invariance of the magnetic moment
2.6 Case of stationary fields
2.7 Guiding center Lagrangian
2.8 Motion in oscillating fields
3: Fluid Description of a Plasma
3.1 Value of fluid description
3.2 Moments of the distribution function
3.3 Fluid conservation laws
3.4 Alternative versions
3.5 Magnetized plasma fluid
3.6 Exact fluid closures
4: Waves in a Cold Plasma
4.1 A speedy-wave closure
4.2 Plane waves in a homogeneous plasma
4.3 Wave propagation
4.4 Representation of the dispersion relation
4.5 Waves propagating parallel to Bo
4.6 Waves propagating perpendicular to Bo
4.7 Propagation at arbitrary angle
4.8 Alfvén waves
4.9 Stability in the cold plasma model
5: MHD and the Drift Model
5.1 Magnetized fluid dynamics
5.2 MHD
5.3 Resistive MHD and magnetic reconnection
5.4 The drift model
5.5 Applications of the drift model
5.6 Kinetic MHD
6: Vlasov Description of a Plasma
6.1 Properties of the Vlasov equation
6.2 The wave-particle resonance
6.3 General solution of the Vlasov equation
6.4 The plasma as a dielectric
6.5 Case-Van Kampen modes
6.6 Waves in a magnetized plasma
6.7 Nonlinear solutions
7: Binary Collisions
7.1 Correlations and collisions
7.2 Fokker-Planck scattering
7.3 Balescu-Lenard operator
7.4 Landau-Boltzmann operator
7.5 Calculus of collisions
7.6 Approximations based on mass ratio
7.7 Collisions with neutral particles
8: Collisional Transport
8.1 Physics of diffusion
8.2 Local transport theory
8.3 Kinetic description of a magnetized plasma
8.4 The Spitzer problem
8.5 Variational transport theory
8.6 Perpendicular transport
9: Turbulent Transport
9.1 Turbulence and the closure problem
9.2 Passive evolution
9.3 The random gyrator
9.4 Transport in a known spectrum
9.5 Quasilinear theory
10: Description of a Relativistic Plasma
10.1 Relativistic plasma
10.2 Relativistic kinematics
10.3 Relativistic electrodynamics
10.4 Kinetic theory
10.5 Moments of kinetic equation
10.6 Maxwellian distribution
10.7 Magnetized plasma
A: Derivation of Balescu-Lenard operator
A.1 Preliminaries
A.2 Diffusion tensor
A.3 Dynamical friction
A.4 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index