Basic Plasma Physics: v. 1
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published in November 1983
Book
Hardback
772 pages
978-0-444-86427-7 (ISBN)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
174ill.13tabs.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-444-86427-7 (9780444864277)
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Content
Preface. Part 1. Plasma Description, Elementary and Radiative Processes. Charged particle motion in electromagnetic fields (M.S. Rabinovich). Elementary nonradiative processes (A.V. Eletsky and B.M. Smirnov). Radiation processes in plasmas (H.R. Griem). MHD description of plasma (R.M. Kulsrud). Collisional transport in plasma (F.L. Hinton). Part 2. Oscillations and Waves. Linear wave propagation in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (H. Weitzner). Kinetic theory of waves (V.N. Oraevsky). Theory of fluctuations in plasma (C.R. Oberman and E.A. Williams). Propagation and mode-conversion for waves in nonuniform plasmas (T.H. Stix and D.G. Swanson). Geometric optics in space and time varying plasmas (I.B. Bernstein and L. Friedland). Part 3. Instabilities. The variational principle for problems of ideal magnetohydrodynamic stability (I.B. Bernstein). Space-time evolution of plasma instabilities - absolute and convective (A. Bers). Kinetic waves and instabilities in a uniform plasma (R.C. Davidson). Instabilities in inhomogeneous plasma (A.B. Mikhailovsky). Resistive instabilities and field line reconnection (R.B. White). Part 4. Theory of Weakly Turbulent Plasma. Introduction. Weak plasma turbulence approximation (A.A. Galeev and R.Z. Sagdeev). Wave-particle interaction (A.A. Galeev and R.Z. Sagdeev). Wave-wave interaction (A.A. Galeev and R.Z. Sagdeev). Wave-particle-wave interaction (A.A. Galeev and R.Z. Sagdeev). Author index. Subject index.