Overview
- Covers basic concepts and mathematical methods of nonlinear plasma physics
- Includes self-organized plasma structures and turbulence in magnetized plasmas
- Both a reference work for researchers and a study text for graduate students
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 62)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals of Plasma Physics
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Nonlinear Theory of Plasmas
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Structures in Strong Plasma Turbulence
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Multiscale Plasma Interactions
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About this book
A nonlinearity is one of the most important notions in modern physics. A plasma is rich in nonlinearities and provides a variety of behaviors inherent to instabilities, coherent wave structures and turbulence. The book covers the basic concepts and mathematical methods, necessary to comprehend nonlinear problems widely encountered in contemporary plasmas, but also in other fields of physics and current research on self-organized structures and magnetized plasma turbulence. The analyses make use of strongly nonlinear models solved by analytical techniques backed by extensive simulations and available experiments. The text is written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers and researchers in laboratory, space and fusion plasmas.
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From the reviews:
“This textbook presents, at the graduate level, all the main necessary tools for a good understanding of nonlinear aspects in plasma physics. … provides the reader with basic concepts and fundamental theories from general plasma physics including both kinetic theory … and fluid theory applied to transport phenomena and magnetohydrodynamics.” (Bernard Ducomet, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1208, 2011)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nonlinear Physics of Plasmas
Authors: Mitsuo Kono, Milos Skoric
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14694-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-14693-0Published: 19 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26557-0Published: 05 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-14694-7Published: 17 October 2010
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 534
Number of Illustrations: 165 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction