Plasma Physics Confinement, Transport and Collective Effects /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dinklage, Andreas (Editor), Klinger, Thomas (Editor), Marx, Gerrit (Editor), Schweikhard, Lutz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 670
• Subjects: Physics.; Nuclear energy.; Space sciences.; Nuclear fusion.; Atoms.; Matter.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.; Plasma Physics.; Nuclear Energy.; Nuclear Fusion.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

"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 a...

Table of Contents:

• Basics of Plasma Physics
• Nuclear Fusion
• Magnetic Confinement
• Plasma Diagnostics
• The Universe - A World of Plasma
• Waves in Plasmas
• Collisional and Turbulent Transport
• Fluctuations in Plasma
• Physics of Ion Traps
• Non-Neutral Plasmas
• High-Accuracy Experiments with Ion Traps
• Laboratory Class
• Energy for the 21st Century
• Research on Modern Gas Discharge Light Sources
• Low-Temperature Physics
• Computational Plasma Physics
• Plasmas in Planetary Interiors
• An Introduction to Strongly Coupled Plasmas
• Collective Effects in Dusty Plasmas.