Fundamentals of plasma physics.
This is an excellent introductory textbook of plasma physics, especially recommendable to those starting the study of the subject. The book arrived at its third edition, we think, it may be sufficient to describe its content in great lines only, and it may be done in giving a selection of its content. To beginn with, the book is an immense monography of 678 pages. The names of the important scientists -- and founding fathers -- are always given, but, unfortunately, there are no hints on the literature, on the original publications. The chapters are moderately long, roughly 35 pages, and many of exercices are given at the end of them (without solutions). The content -- to give a view of the scope and effect of the book -- shall be outlined here, and this will be rather long, though we aim at an overview only. Plasma in general. Motion of charges in constant and uniform fields, and in nonuniform magnetic fields. Motion of charges in time-varying electromagnetic fields. The plasma kinetic theory. Average values and macroscopic variables (particle current, momentum flow, pressure, heat flow). The use of vectors and triads. The equilibrium state. Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions, degree of ionization. Macroscopic transport equations (moments of Boltzmann equation, conservation theorems). Cold and warm plasma models. Macroscopic equations for a conducting fluid (energy equation, Maxwell equations, magnetohydrodynamic equations). Plasma conductivity and diffusion (Langevin equation, DC and AC conductivity and electron mobility, various aspects of diffusion). Electron plasma oscillations, Debye shielding, plasma sheath, plasma probe. Some applications of MHD (the fundamental equations modified by Parker, the Chew-Goldberger-Low double adiabatic equations, magnetic viscosity, magnetic Reynolds number, diffusion of magnetic field lines, the freezing in of magnetic field lines, isobaric surfaces, plasma confinement in magnetic fields). The pinch effect (and related instabilities). Electromagnetic waves in free space (polarisation, energy flow, wave packets and group velocity). Magnetohydrodynamic waves (Alfvén waves, magnetosonic waves, MHD waves in compressible nonviscous conducting fluid, propagation perpendicular or parallel to the magnetic field, effect of the displacement current, damping of the waves). Waves in cold plasmas (the magnetoionic theory, waves in isotropic electron plasmas and collisionless plasmas, magnetized cold plasmas, Appleton-Hartree equation, propagation in arbitrary directions, whistlers, helicons, Faraday rotation). Waves in warm plasmas (basic equations, waves in an electron gas in a magnetic field, waves in fully ionized magnetoplasma). Waves in hot isotropic plasma (basic equations, general results for plane waves, electrostatic longitudinal wave, transverse waves, two-stream instability). Waves in hot magnetized plasmas (waves along and across the magnetic field). Particle interactions in plasmas (binary collisions and their calculations for hard sphere model and Coulomb potential, the screening). The Boltzmann and Fokker-Planck equations (derivation of Boltzmann collision integral, Boltzmann's \(H\)-function, \(H\)-theorem, the collision term for weakly ionized plasma, the spherical harmonic expansion of distribution function, derivation of Fokker-Planck collision term, the \(F\)-\(P\) coefficients for Coulomb interaction, application to electron-ion collisions). Transport processes in plasmas (electron conductivity without and with magnetizing field, diffusion without and with magnetic field, heat flow). The reader will find six appendices on vectors, Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates, on physical constants (in MKSA units!), on conversion factors, on important parameters and on approximate magnitudes in some typical plasmas. Our impressions are good in spite of two circumstances. One is the total absence of literature references, the other is the use of MKSA units instead of SI (which is accepted since 1965).
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- An ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic solver with parallel block-structured adaptive mesh refinement
- Gaussian packets and beams with focal points in vector problems of plasma physics
- Kinetic theory of small-amplitude fluctuations in astrophysical plasmas
- Behaviour of charged spinning massless particles
- A particle-in-cell method for the simulation of plasmas based on an unconditionally stable field solver
- A continuity-preserving and divergence-cleaning algorithm based on purely and damped hyperbolic Maxwell equations in inhomogeneous media
- Asymptotic-preserving methods and multiscale models for plasma physics
- Long term regularity of the one-fluid Euler-Maxwell system in 3D with vorticity
- Magneto-hydrodynamical model for plasma
- Multidimensional Hall magnetohydrodynamics with isotropic or anisotropic thermal pressure: numerical scheme and its validation using solitary waves
- An electrostatic particle-in-cell code on multi-block structured meshes
- An initial boundary value problem for screw pinches in plasma physics with temperature dependent viscosity coefficients
- A plasma-vacuum interface tracking algorithm for magnetohydrodynamic simulations of coaxial plasma accelerators
- Long-term regularity of the periodic Euler-Poisson system for electrons in 2D
- Numerical simulation of argon fuelled self-field magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters using the central-upwind scheme flux interpolations
- The Euler-Maxwell system for electrons: global solutions in 2D
- Magnetohydrodynamics adaptive solvers in the AMROC framework for space plasma applications
- \(\mathrm{L}^2\)-hypocoercivity and large time asymptotics of the linearized Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system
- On the use of Hermite functions for the Vlasov-Poisson system
- Stationary soap films with vertical potentials
- A single-component BKM-type regularity criterion for the inviscid axially symmetric Hall-MHD system
- Higher-order particle representation for particle-in-cell simulations
- Hermite spectral method for Fokker-Planck-Landau equation modeling collisional plasma
- Variational, stable, and self-consistent coupling of 3D electromagnetics to 1D transmission lines in the time domain
- A decision-making machine learning approach in Hermite spectral approximations of partial differential equations
- Blow-up criterion for the 3D non-resistive compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations
- IMEX and exact sequence discretization of the multi-fluid plasma model
- A blow-up criterion of strong solutions to the 3D compressible MHD equations with vacuum
- A semi-Lagrangian spectral method for the Vlasov-Poisson system based on Fourier, Legendre and Hermite polynomials
- Global wellposedness of magnetohydrodynamics system with temperature-dependent viscosity
- Wavelet-based parallel dynamic mesh adaptation for magnetohydrodynamics in the AMROC framework
- Hierarchical robust systems for magnetic plasma control in tokamaks with adaptation
- Simplex-in-cell technique for collisionless plasma simulations
- On magnetic inhibition theory in non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic fluids
- The role of dust charging frequency in the linear and nonlinear propagation of dust acoustic waves
- Head-on collision of magnetoacoustic solitary waves in magnetized quantum electron-positron-ion plasma
- The complete flux scheme -- error analysis and application to plasma simulation
- Lifting in hybrid lattice Boltzmann and PDE models
- An implicit monolithic AFC stabilization method for the CG finite element discretization of the fully-ionized ideal multifluid electromagnetic plasma system
- On a single-component regularity criterion for the non-resistive axially symmetric Hall-MHD system
- Highly efficient energy-conserving moment method for the multi-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell system
- A guiding center implementation for relativistic particle dynamics in the PLUTO code
- Introduction to plasma physics. Incl. 2 disc
- Global solutions of the Euler-Maxwell two-fluid system in 3D
- Global solutions of certain plasma fluid models in three-dimension
- On the global solvability and the non-resistive limit of the one-dimensional compressible heat-conductive MHD equations
- Plasma physics. Phenomena, foundations, applications
- High temperature plasmas. Theory and mathematical tools for laser and fusion plasmas.
- Liouville and Fokker–Planck dynamics for classical plasmas and radiation
- Controlling the weights of simulation particles: adaptive particle management using k-d trees
- Plasma physics. An introduction
- The Physics of Plasmas
- Decay estimates of solutions to the bipolar non-isentropic compressible Euler-Maxwell system
- Mathematical magnetohydrodynamics
- Dynamic discrete tomography
- Global solutions of quasilinear systems of Klein-Gordon equations in 3D
- Fundamentals of Plasma Physics
- Basic Space Plasma Physics
- A higher order moment preserving reduction scheme for the stochastic weighted particle method
- Dynamics of a dipole in a stationary electromagnetic field
- A Simple Solver for the Two-Fluid Plasma Model Based on PseudoSpectral Time-Domain Algorithm
- On local energy decay for large solutions of the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation
- High frequency oscillatory flows in a slightly~rarefied gas according to the Boltzmann-BGK~equation
- Multi-fluid extensions of MHD and their implications on waves and instabilities
- On the non-resistive limit and the magnetic boundary-layer for one-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamics
- Fundamentals of theoretical plasma physics. Mathematical description of plasma waves
- Foundations of plasma physics for physicists and mathematicians
- Multiscale modelling and splitting approaches for fluids composed of Coulomb-interacting particles
- Transform as a vector? Tying functional parity with rotation angle of coordinate axes
- Global well‐posedness and asymptotics of full compressible non‐resistive magnetohydrodynamics system with large external potential forces
- Charge‐Current Output in Plasma‐Immersed Hydrogen Atom with Noncentral Interaction
- Global well-posedness for 3D Euler-Maxwell two-fluids system
- Energy-conserving explicit and implicit time integration methods for the multi-dimensional Hermite-DG discretization of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations
- Gas kinetic principles in Navier-Stokes finite-volume solvers
- Structure-Preserving Finite-Element Schemes for the Euler-Poisson Equations
- Nonlinear stability of rarefaction waves for the compressible MHD equations
- Curves whose curvature depends on their position and null curves
- picFoam: an OpenFOAM based electrostatic particle-in-cell solver
- A hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin formulation for the Euler-Maxwell plasma model
- Plasma transport coefficients: an application of SO(3) group
- Modal stability of low-frequency nucleus-acoustic waves in completely degenerate white dwarf cores and their nearly degenerate surroundings
- Exponential Stability and Hypoelliptic Regularization for the Kinetic Fokker–Planck Equation with Confining Potential
- Plasma theory. An advanced guide for graduate students
- Voigt regularization for the explicit time stepping of the Hall effect term
- Integrability meets the charged relativistic particle
- A blow-up criterion for 3D non-resistive compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations with initial vacuum
- Existence and stability of almost finite energy weak solutions to the quantum Euler-Maxwell system
- Large time behavior of strong solutions to the 1D non-resistive full compressible MHD system with large initial data
- Global convergence rates in the relaxation limits for the compressible Euler and Euler-Maxwell systems in Sobolev spaces
- Charged particle motion in a strong magnetic field: applications to plasma confinement
- Manifestations of inertia on light dragging revealed in plasmas
- The inhomogeneous incompressible Hall-MHD system with only bounded density
- A particle-in-cell method for plasmas with a generalized momentum formulation. I: Model formulation
- Reducing the computational complexity of implicit schemes in the modeling of kinetic inelastic collisions in a partially ionized plasma
- Equivalence of measures and stochastic equations of hydrodynamic theory of plasma
- Solvability of the Cauchy problem to nonlinear wave equations in 3D spaces
- Solvability of a system of nonlinear wave equations in three-dimensional space
- Structure-preserving finite-element approximations of the magnetic Euler-Poisson equations
- Global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the magnetohydrodynamic equations
- Quantum plasmadynamics. Unmagnetized plasmas
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