In 1982, the First Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics was held in Cam buquira (Brazil). It has been a long way since this first meeting up to the actual one, the VII LA WPP held in Caracas, Venezuela. However, the structure of this first Meeting has remained unchanged. The first week of the workshop is always de voted at short courses in the different fields of Plasma Physics, and the presentation of contributed and review papers is carried on during the second week. In relation to the preceding meetings, the emphasis on Plasma Processing was increased and a short course in dusty plasma was introduced too. This area of plasma has become more important every year, even though the research in this field is at incipient stage in Latin-America. However we feel that its importance will increase in future years and we should keep step. A large scope of fields in Plasma Physics has been covered in this meeting, however, several areas were left aside, because the field of Plasma Physics has become so broad that it cannot be covered in such a short period of two weeks.
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Reprinted from ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, 256:1-2, 1999
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Research
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 241 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 35 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-5527-4 (9780792355274)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-4758-3
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Dense Z-pinches.- Computational simulation of plasmas.- Plasma physics in astronomy and cosmology.- Advances in numerical modeling of astrophysical and space plasmas.- Plasma kinetic theory I.- Plasma collective effects in the presence of dust.- Shock structures in plasmas containing variable-charge macro particles.- Review of inertial confinement fusion.- A new approach to ICF.- Hohlraum targets driven by cluster ion beams for inertial confinement fusion.- The interaction physics of the fast ignitor concept.- Charge compensated ion beam propagation in a reactor sized chamber.- Sawtooth instability in tokamak plasmas.- Important issues of physics of improved confinement in Tokamaks.- Rotation of tokamak plasmas by Alfvén waves.- Anisotropic magnetic confinement. Applications to field reversed configurations.- Energy exhaust from tokamaks: problems and solutions.- Improved approximated solutions to the nonlinear debye potential.- Entropy and entropy production in transition from weak to strong turbulent plasma state.- Nonlinear processes in lower-hybrid current drive and plasma heating.- Plasma kinetic theory II.- Nonlinear electric field diffusion in plasmas.- MHD leaky waves in a layered plasma: I theory.- MHD leaky waves in a layered plasma: II mechanisms of leakage.- MHD leaky waves in a layered plasma: III numerical solutions.- Growth rates of envelope modulations of electromagnetic waves in relativistic temperature electron-positron plasmas, stimulated by weak or finite phonon damping.- Electromagnetic oscillations in cylindrical plasmas with electron beams interactions.- UV line profiles of BIV from a 10-ps KrF-laser-produced plasma.- Experimental analysis of hydrodynamic solitions.- Pre-breakdown processes in the hollow cathode region of a transient hollowcathode discharge.- Rapid reconnection and compressible plasma waves.- New calculations of the electrical microfield distribution in plasma.- Analytical approximant of the universal line shape.- Spectral study of ionized xenon using a capillary pulsed discharge.- On the thermochemical instability of an ionized plasma cooled by oxygen forbidden lines.- Space charge potentials in cylindrical geometries including temperature effects.- CME phenomenology in different solar magnetic scenarios.- On the thermochemical instability of optically thin plasmas.- Nonlinear evolution of thermal structures. Numerical approach.- On the nonlinear thermal evolution of solar corona structures.- Photo-ionizing flash as a trigger for efficient H2 cooling in metal-free clouds.- Thermal instability for convection in astrophysical plasmas.- Parametric decay of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave in an electron-positron magnetized plasma.- New system of coordinates for tokamaks.- Rotation of weakly collisional plasmas in tokamaks, operated with Alfvén waves.- Current drive by Alfvén waves in elongated cross section tokamak.- Feedback stabilization of burn conditions in a thermonuclear reactor using artificial neural networks: preliminary results.- Effect of induced toroidal rotation on poloidal rotation and ion heat conductivity of tokamak edge plasmas.- Low-angle Thomson scattering experiment for determination of plasma electron density and temperature.- Gas embedded compressional Z-pinch in H2 and D2.- Investigation of variation of focus action with the length of the inner electrode for a plasma focus.- Numerical study of the first compression of a two-dimensional pinch.- 2-D code for simulating a hollow gas puff Z-pinch.- Optical measurements in an exploding wire experiment.-Studies of plasma dynamics in a small plasma focus operating in hydrogen-argon mixtures.- Time resolved studies of a pulsed hollow cathode capillary discharge.- Current sheath studies in a small plasma focus operating in hydrogen-argon mixtures.- Hard X-ray diagnostic of Z-pinch discharges.- Thermal decomposition of ilmenite in a non-transferred ARC thermal plasma flow reactor.- Spatial and temporal bchavior of a laser generated titanium plasma.- Ion-gas interaction in a vacuum ARC at intermediate pressures.- TiN production in a glow discharge.- Correlation between the population of active species in low pressure plasmas and their reactions with organic compounds.- Spectral broadening of the 3463 Å line in a zirconium plasma generated by laser irradiation.- A compact highvoltage pulse generator for plasma applications.- Laser ablation in the synthesis of zirconium oxide.
