I have been asked by Professor Kikuchi to write a foreword for this interesting book on Dusty Plasmas and other electrical phenomena. This was a somewhat daunting task due to the wide range of topics covered. In what follows I have attempted to summarize most of these topics; for this purpose I have divided them into four groups, namely (a) Dusty Plasmas, (b) The Electrical Environment, (c) Lightning and (d) The Noise Environment. I hope that I have succeeded. in indicating that each section contains much that is of great interest. It is perhaps unnecessary for me to point out that the book contains subjects which are at an exciting and important stage in their development. (a) Dusty Plasmas The subject of dusty plasmas is one of great interest. Dust particles in interplanetary space, within comets, in inter-stellar space and at ever greater distances will in general be charged. The plasma environment will ensure this, bombarding electrons will charge up the particle until it assumes a "floating potential," although time variation can occur. Ultra violet radiation can cause photoemission and in certain cases field emission is a possibility. The motion of the particles will be determined by electric and magnetic fields together with gravity. If the density of charged grains becomes sufficiently high the grains will interact with each other and collective behaviour will ensue. This newly evolving subject entails the study of all kinds of plasma waves.
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978-1-4615-1829-7 (9781461518297)
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10.1007/978-1-4615-1829-7
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1. Cosmic Dusty Plasmas.- 1.1 Cosmic Dusty Plasmas: Some Recent Results.- 1.2 Parametric Excitation of the Low-Frequency Oscillations in the Dusty plasma of Planetary Rings.- 1.3 Spokes in the Saturn's Ring as Solutions in Dusty Plasma.- 1.4 Effects of the Charged Dust in a High Energy Electron Beam.- 1.5 Plasma Tail and Dust Tail of Comets.- 1.6 CRRES Plasma Wave Observations during Quiet Times, during Geomagnetic Disturbances, and during Chemical Releases.- 2. Laboratory Dusty Plasmas: Theory and Experiment.- 2.1 Coherent Structures in Low-Temperature Dusty Plasmas.- 2.2 Electron-Free Plasma.- 2.3 Measurement of Electric Carge of Dust in a Plasma.- 2.4 Effects of Intersteiler Neutral Wind on the Structure of the Heliosphere - Laboratory Simulation.- 3. Meteorologico-Electric Environment and EHD.- 3.1 EHD and EHMD Transport Processes in Dusty and Dirty Plasmas.- 3.2 The Mechanism of Electrohydrodynamic Wind Generation in a Lower Atomosphere.- 3.3 Verhulst Dynamics and Fractal Streching of Transition Layer Vorticity.- 3.4 The state of Matter FIELD and Its Property - A New Basic Approach to the Understanding of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Electomagnetic Environment.- 4. Self-Organization and Turbulence.- 4.1 Self-Organization Processes in Turbulent Atomosphere and Methods for Their Study.- 4.2 Studying of Helical Turbulence Self-Organization Based on 3D-Generation of Hasegawa-Mima Equation.- 4.3 Quantum Aspects of Self-Organization in Dynamically Random Systems.- 4.4 Self-Organization in Plasmas.- 4.5 Plasma Maser in Turbulent Media.- 4.6 A Statistical Theory of Turbulence.- 4.7 Two-Time Fourier Convolution Theorem and Its Applications.- 5. Lightning Discharges and Laboratory Simulation.- 5.1 A New Model of Lightning.- 5.2 Acoustic -based Real TimeReconstruction of Lightning Discharge Channel Using Parallel Processing.- 5.3 Forecast of Winter Thundercloud of by Frequency Analysis of Atomospheric Pressure.- 5.4 Fundamental Experiments Concerning Laser Triggered Lightning.- 6. Atmospheric Electricity and Noise.- 6.1 Jet Stream Electrodynamics.- 6.2 Fading Patterns on on the Sonagram of Atomospherics.- 6.3 Mobility Distributions and Mass Distributions of Atomospheric Ions near the Ground.- 7. Magnetospheric Noise and Pulsations.- 7.1 Local Time Dependence of Wave Characteristics of Pi2 Pulsations Observed at Synchronous Orbit.- 7.2 Solar Cycle Variation of Local Time Dependence in Frequency of Occurrence of Pi2.- 7.3 Magnetospheric VLF Waves Observed by DE-1.- 7.4 The Experimental Results of triggering Chorus Emissions from Monochromatic Wave Components in the Hiss Band in the Outer Magnetosphere.- 7.5 A New Direction Finding Method of Magnetospheric VLF/ELF Radio Waves Using the Linear Regularization and Generalized Cross Validation.- 8. Planetary and Solar Noise and Plasmas.- 8.1 Non-Auroral Lights on Jupiter's Dark Side.- 8.2 Venus Plasma Noise Studies: A Lesson from Flawed Analysis and Intepretation.- 8.3 Beaming Geometry of the Io-Related Decametric Radiation.- 8.4 Yohkoh Observations from the Onset of Several Flares.- 8.5 Plasma Corona and Dust Corona of the Sun.- 9. Galactic Noise and Plasmas.- 9.1 An Overview of Observations with X-Ray Astronomy Satellite GINGA.- 9.2 X-Ray Emission from Compact X-Ray Sources and the Dust near or surrounding the Sources.- 9.3 A Systematic Study of Dense Cloud Cores and Star Formation.- 10. Fluctuations, Chaos, Reconnection, and Acceleration.- 10.1 Chaos in Plasmas: A Case Study in Thermionic Discharges.- 10.2 Fluctuational and Intermittent Chaos: Wave-Turbulent andWave-Fluctuation Amplification Processes in Geophysical Hydrodynamics.- 10.3 Electric Reconnection and Chaos in Dusty and Dirty Plasmas.- 10.4 Pre-Earthquake Ionospheric Effects and their Possible Mechanisms.- 10.5 Plasma-Based Particle Acceleration.- 11. Ball Lightning and Microwave Discharges.- 11.1 A Novel Method to Induce Atmospheric Microwave Discharges by Moderate Powers.- 11.2 Nature of Fireballs Produced by Microwave Interference.- 11.3 Considerations of Internal Mechanism of Ball Lightning - Based on the simulation experiment of damages on the tree which were seemed to be produced by ball lightning.
