Overview
- Unified formalism to deal with dilute non-equilibrium plasmas
- Deep analysis of the physical content of magneto-hydrodynamics
- Unravels the strong relationship between micro- and macroscopic features of plasmas
- Illustrates the influence of magnetic fields in plasma kinetic theory
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 53)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Tensorial Transport Processes
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book results from recent studies aimed at answering questions raised by astrophycists who use values of transport coefficients that are old and often unsatisfactory. The few books dealing with the rigorous kinetic theory of a ionized plasma are based on the so called Landau (Fokker-Planck) equation and they seldom relate the microscopic results with their macroscopic counterpart provided by classical non-equilibrium thermodynamics. In this book both issues are thoroughly covered. Starting from the full Boltzmann equation for inert dilute plasmas and using the Hilbert-Chapman-Enskog method to solve the first two approximations in Knudsen´s parameter, we construct all the transport properties of the system within the framework of linear irreversible thermodynamics. This includes a systematic study of all possible cross effects (which, except for a few cases, were never treated in the literature) as well as the famous H-theorem. The equations of magneto-hydrodynamics for dilute plasmas, including the rather surprising results obtained for the viscomagnetic effects, may be now fully assessed. This book will be of immediate interest to the plasma physics community, as well as to astrophysicists. It is also likely to make an impact in the field of cold plasmas, involving laser cooled Rydberg atoms.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Kinetic Theory of Inert Dilute Plasmas
Authors: Leopoldo S. García-Colín, Leonardo Dagdug
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9330-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9329-6Published: 16 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8109-4Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9330-2Published: 11 December 2008
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 166
Topics: Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, Plasma Physics, Thermodynamics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Complex Systems