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High temperature plasmas : theory and mathematical tools for laser and fusion plasmas / Karl-Heinz Spatschek.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 629 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783527638130
  • 352763813X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: High temperature plasmas.DDC classification:
  • 530.44 22
LOC classification:
  • QC718.5.H5 S63 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Single Particle Motion -- Plasma in Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- Kinetic Description of Nonequilibrium Plasmas -- Fluid Description -- Principles of Linear and Stochastic Transport -- Linear Waves and Instabilities -- General Theory of Nonlinear Waves and Solitons -- Nonlinear Wave Aspects in Laser₆Matter Interaction -- Appendix A: Units -- Appendix B: Fourier and Laplace Transforms for Pedestrians -- Appendix C: The Inverse Scattering Transform (IST) for Nonlinear Waves -- Appendix D: Lie Transform Techniques for Eliminating Fast Variations -- Appendix E: Choices of Low-Dimensional Basis Systems -- Appendix F: Center Manifold Theory -- Appendix G: Newell₆Whitehead Procedure -- Appendix H: Liapunov Stability -- Appendix I: Variational Principles -- Appendix J: Self-Adjointness of the Operator Appearing in Hydromagnetic Variational Principles -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-623) and index.

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Single Particle Motion -- Plasma in Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- Kinetic Description of Nonequilibrium Plasmas -- Fluid Description -- Principles of Linear and Stochastic Transport -- Linear Waves and Instabilities -- General Theory of Nonlinear Waves and Solitons -- Nonlinear Wave Aspects in Laser₆Matter Interaction -- Appendix A: Units -- Appendix B: Fourier and Laplace Transforms for Pedestrians -- Appendix C: The Inverse Scattering Transform (IST) for Nonlinear Waves -- Appendix D: Lie Transform Techniques for Eliminating Fast Variations -- Appendix E: Choices of Low-Dimensional Basis Systems -- Appendix F: Center Manifold Theory -- Appendix G: Newell₆Whitehead Procedure -- Appendix H: Liapunov Stability -- Appendix I: Variational Principles -- Appendix J: Self-Adjointness of the Operator Appearing in Hydromagnetic Variational Principles -- References -- Index.

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