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. Thetext is written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers and researchers. Covers basic concepts and mathematical methods of nonlinear plasmaphysics Includes self-organized plasma structures and turbulence in magnetized plasmas Both a reference work for researchers and a study text for graduate students INDICE: Nature of High Temperature Plasmas.- Statistical Kinetics of Plasmas.- Fluid Description of Plasmas.- Waves in Plasmas.- Nonlinear Interactions in Plasmas.- Nonlinear Plasma Wave Kinetics.- Ponderomotive Potential.- Solitons in Plasmas.- Wave Collapse.- Chaos in Plasmas.- Self-Organization and Vortices in Plasma Turbulence.- Complexity in Laser Plasmas.- Relativistic Plasma Physics
- ISBN: 978-3-642-14693-0
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés