Plasma Physics: Confinement, Transport and Collective Effects

Andreas Dinklage (editor), Thomas Klinger (editor), Gerrit Marx (editor), Lutz Schweikhard (editor)3540252746, 9783540252740

“Plasma Physics: Confinement, Transport and Collective Effects” provides an overview of modern plasma research with special focus on confinement and related issues. Beginning with a broad introduction, the book leads graduate students and researchers — also those from related fields — to an understanding of the state-of-the-art in modern plasma physics. Furthermore, it presents a methodological cross section ranging from plasma applications and plasma diagnostics to numerical simulations, the latter providing an increasingly important link between theory and experiment. Effective references guide the reader from introductory texts through to contemporary research. Some related exercises in computational plasma physics are supplied on a special web site.

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Table of contents :
Basics of Plasma Physics….Pages 1-20
Waves in Plasmas….Pages 21-50
An Introduction to Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD),or Magnetic Fluid Dynamics….Pages 51-74
Physics of “Hot” Plasmas….Pages 75-93
Low Temperature Plasmas….Pages 95-116
Strongly Coupled Plasmas….Pages 117-133
Magnetic Confinement….Pages 135-172
Introduction to Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas….Pages 173-211
Transport in Toroidal Plasmas….Pages 213-267
Non-Neutral Plasmas and Collective Phenomena in Ion Traps….Pages 269-295
Collective Effects in Dusty Plasmas….Pages 297-329
Plasmas in Planetary Interiors….Pages 331-348
Plasma Diagnostics….Pages 349-373
Observation of Plasma Fluctuations….Pages 375-397
Research on Modern Gas Discharge Light Sources….Pages 399-423
Computational Plasma Physics….Pages 425-443
Nuclear Fusion….Pages 445-460
The Possible Role of Nuclear Fusion in the 21st Century….Pages 461-482