Instabilities in Space and Laboratory Plasmas

Zusammenfassung This introductory account of instabilities in plasmas concentrates on laboratory plasmas such as those encountered in fusion research! and the space plasmas studied in physics of the magnetosphere and solar atmosphere. It bridges the gap between a graduate textbook on plasma physics and specialist monographs! stressing the similarities between astrophysics and laboratory plasmas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Plasma formulary; Part I. Introduction To Plasma Theory: 1. Introduction; 2. The response of an unmagnetized plasma; Part II. Instabilities In Unmagnetized Plasmas: 3. Reactive instabilities; 4. Kinetic instabilities; 5. Particle motions in waves; 6. Weak turbulence theory; 7. Nonlinear instabilities and strong turbulence; Part III. Collision-Dominated Magnetized Plasmas: 8. Magnetohydrodynamics; 9. MHD instabilities; Part IV. Instabilities In Magnetized Collisionless Plasmas: 10. Dispersion in a magnetized plasma; 11. Electron cyclotron maser emission; 12. Instabilities in warm and in inhomogeneous plasmas; 13. Instabilities due to anisotropic fast particles; Appendices; Bibliographical notes; References; List of commonly used symbols; Author index; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: D. B. Melrose, D.b. Melrose
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.1989
• EAN: 9780521379625
• ISBN: 978-0-521-37962-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works