High temperature plasmas : theory and mathematical tools for laser and fusion plasmas /

• Main Author: Spatschek, Karl-Heinz
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2012]
• Subjects: High temperature plasmas.; Atoms.; Plasma spectroscopy.; SCIENCE > Energy.; SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.; SCIENCE > Physics > General.; Electronic books.

Table of 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.