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...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Part I Characterization of complex systems
• Primer on complex systems
• Statistics
• Scale Invariance
• Memory
• Fundamentals of fractional transport
• Part II Complex dynamics in magnetized plasmas
• Laboratory fusion plasmas: dynamics of near-marginal turbulent radial transport
• Space plasmas: complex dynamics of the active Sun
• Planetary plasmas: complex dynamics in the magnetosphere of the Earth
• Laboratory plasmas: dynamics of transport across sheared flows
• Index.