A Primer on Complex Systems With Applications to Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas /

• Main Authors: Sánchez, Raúl (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Newman, David (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 943
• Subjects: Plasma (Ionized gases).; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Nuclear fusion.; Planetary science.; Solar system.; Plasma Physics.; Complex Systems.; Nuclear Fusion.; Planetary Sciences.; Solar and Heliospheric Physics .

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the fundamental concepts of complexity and complex behavior and the best methods to characterize this behavior by means of their applications to some current research topics from within the fields of fusion, earth and solar plasmas. In this sense, it is a de...