Kinetics of Complex Plasmas

• Main Author: Sodha, Mahendra Singh (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 81
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Nanotechnology.; Plasma Physics.; Physical Chemistry.

The presentation in the book is based on charge balance on the dust particles, number and energy balance of the constituents and atom-ion-electron interaction in the gaseous plasma. Size distribution of dust particles, statistical mechanics, Quantum effects in electron emission from and accretion on...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Electron Emission from Dust
• Accretion of Electrons/ions on Dust Particles
• Kinetics of Dust-electron Cloud
• Kinetics of Complex Plasmas with Uniform Size Dust
• Kinetics of Flowing Complex Plasma
• Kinetics of Complex Plasmas having Dust with a Size Distribution
• Theory of Electrical Conduction
• Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Complex Plasmas
• Fluctuation of Charge on Dust Particles in a Complex Plasma
• Kinetics of Complex Plasmas in Space
• Complex Plasma as Working Fluid in MHD Power Generators
• Rocket Exhaust Complex Plasmas
• Kinetics of Complex Plasmas with Liquid Droplets
• Growth of Particles in a plasma
• Electrostatic Precipitation.