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Plasmas and fluids / Panel on the Physics of Plasmas and Fluids, Physics Survey Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Physics through the 1990s.
- Physics through the 1990s
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plasma (Ionized gases).
- Space plasmas.
- Fluids.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Physics through the 1990s
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Introduction and Executive Summary
- GENERAL FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- Findings
- Recommendations
- INTRODUCTION
- The Emergence of Plasma Physics
- Classification of Plasmas
- Fluid Physics
- PRINCIPAL FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- General Plasma Physics
- Fusion Plasma Confinement and Heating
- MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT
- INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
- Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
- RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
- Significant Recent Accomplishments
- Future Research Opportunities
- Significant Recent Accomplishments-Magnetic Confinement
- Future Research Opportunities-Magnetic Confinement
- Significant Recent Accomplishments-Inertial Confinement
- Future Research Opportunities-Inertial Confinement
- FUNDING AND MANPOWER RESOURCES
- INSTITUTIONAL INVOLVEMENT
- Plasma Confinement and Heating
- 2 Fluid Physics
- INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
- SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN FLUID PHYSICS
- Significant Research Opportunities
- FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- Principal Findings
- Support Structure
- Computational Techniques
- Instrumentation Techniques
- Education
- Principal Recommendations
- Research Support
- GOVERNMENT SUPPORT, MANPOWER, AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH
- DETAILED REVIEW OF THE BRANCHES, SELECTED TOPICAL SUBJECT AREAS, AND TECHNICAL DISCIPLINES OF FLUID-PHYSICS RESEARCH
- Branches of Fluid Physics.
- Combustion and Reacting Flows
- Non-Newtonian Fluids and Rheology
- Vortex-Dominated Flows
- Disturbance of Initially Rotational Fields
- Vortex Fields Generated by Highly Loaded Wings and Bodies
- Geophysical Flows
- Contained Vortices
- High-Speed Flows
- Molecular and Statistical Phenomena
- Viscosity-Dominated Flows
- Stability
- Turbulence
- Buoyancy-Driven Motion
- Convection in Nature
- Suspended Particles
- Gravity Currents
- Convection in Materials Processes
- Interface Phenomena
- Deformation and Breakup of Small Drops in Shear Flows
- Breaking of Waves
- Sediment Transport
- Solitons
- Spreading of Liquids on Solid Surfaces
- Air-Sea Interaction
- Sound Generation and Propagation
- Radiation Hydrodynamics
- Porous Media
- Rotating Phenomena
- Turbomachinery Flows
- The Circulation of the Atmosphere and Oceans
- Phase Change
- Technological Applications
- Nonequilibrium Evaporation and Condensation
- Topical Subject Areas
- Aerodynamics
- Biofluid Dynamics
- Flows of Electrically Conducting Fluids
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Multiphase Flows
- Technical Disciplines
- Modeling and Analytical Methods
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Experimental Methods
- Instrumentation
- Flow Facilities
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 3 General Plasma Physics
- SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES OF GENERAL PLASMA PHYSICS
- INTENSE BEAMS-ELECTRONS, IONS, AND PHOTONS
- Development of Low-Impedance Multiterawatt Machines
- Intense Ion Beams
- Development of High-Energy, High-Current Machines
- Z-Pinch X-Ray Sources
- Propagation of Charged-Particle Beams in Gas and Plasma
- Expectations and Recommendations for the next 10 Years
- COLLECTIVE ACCELERATORS
- Space-Charge Accelerators
- Wave Accelerators
- Electron-Ring Accelerators
- Collective Focusing Accelerators
- LASER-DRIVEN ACCELERATORS.
- Beat-Wave Accelerator
- Inverse Free-Electron-Laser Accelerator
- Grating Accelerator
- High-Gradient Structures
- Inverse Cerenkov Accelerator
- Cyclotron Resonant Accelerator
- Problem Areas
- Recommendations for the Next 10 Years
- COHERENT, FREE-ELECTRON RADIATION SOURCES
- ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE-PLASMA INTERACTION
- Scattering and Absorption of Electromagnetic Waves by Plasmas
- Isotope Separation
- NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN PLASMAS
- Chaos in Hamiltonian Systems
- Soliton and Related Phenomena
- Strong Langmuir Turbulence
- Parametric Instabilities
- Magnetic Reconnection
- Turbulent Relaxation to Force-Free States
- Other Major Achievements in the Past Decade
- PLASMA THEORY DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT
- Magnetic-Flux Geometries and Coordinate Systems
- Single-Particle Orbits
- Coulomb Collisional Processes
- Macroscopic Equilibria
- Macroscopic Instabilities-Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics
- Macroscopic Instabilities-Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics
- Microscopic (Kinetic) Instabilities and Turbulent Transport
- Summary
- ATOMIC PHYSICS IN (AND FOR) PLASMAS
- Recent Progress
- Outstanding Research Problems
- Training
- Funding Levels
- Recommended Funding Levels
- PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
- Laser Scattering
- Microwave Interferometry
- Spectroscopy
- Charge Exchange
- Neutrons and Alpha Particles
- Blackbody and Plasma-Well Interactions
- Heavy-Ion Diagnostics
- Time-Resolved Plasma Activity
- Scattering from Collective Fluctuations
- Data Acquisition and Instrumentation
- Desiderata
- STRONGLY COUPLED PLASMA PHYSICS
- History
- Outlook for the Next 10 Years
- NONNEUTRAL PLASMAS
- 4 Fusion Plasma Confinement and Heating
- SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES OF FUSION PLASMA RESEARCH
- Introduction
- The Fusion Process
- Magnetic Confinement
- Inertial Confinement.
- TOKAMAK AND STELLARATOR MAGNETIC-CONFINEMENT SYSTEMS
- Major Advances
- Optimization of Experimental Performance
- Confinement
- Stability and Beta Limits
- Current Frontiers of Research
- Prospects for Future Advances
- MAGNETIC MIRROR SYSTEMS
- Major Advances-the Tandem Mirror
- Microstability
- Axial Confinement: Control of the Potential Profile and Thermal Barriers
- Macrostability: Equilibrium and Beta Limits
- Radial Confinement: Particle Transport and Radial Potential Control
- Prospects for Future Advances in Mirror Confinement
- ELMO BUMPY TORUS
- REVERSED-FIELD PINCH
- COMPACT TOROIDS
- Spheromaks
- Field-Reversed Configurations
- PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE ADVANCES
- PLASMA HEATING
- Radio-Frequency Heating
- Major Advances: Theory
- Major Advances: Experiment
- Radio-Frequency Current Drive
- Neutral-Beam Heating
- Prospects For Future Advances
- INERTIAL-CONFINEMENT FUSION SYSTEMS
- Drivers For Inertial-Confinement Fusion
- Laser-Target Physics
- Laser-Plasma Coupling
- Heat Transport and Ablation
- Shell Acceleration, Uniformity, and Hydrodynamic Instabilities
- ADVANCED FUSION APPLICATIONS
- FUNDING OF FUSION PLASMA RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES
- Magnetic Confinement.
- Inertial Confinement
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 5 Space And Astrophysical Plasmas
- PRINCIPAL CONCLUSIONS
- PRINCIPAL RECOMMENDATIONS
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LABORATORY, SPACE, AND ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMA RESEARCH
- Definition of Space and Astrophysical Plasma Physics
- Relationship Between Laboratory and Space Plasma Physics
- Relationship Between Space and Astrophysical Plasma Research
- Magnetohydrodynamic Atmospheres and Winds
- Planetary and Astrophysical Magnetospheres
- Magnetic-Field Reconnection
- Particle Acceleration and Cosmic Rays
- The Unifying Physical Problems
- SPACE AND ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMA PHYSICS IN THE PAST 10 YEARS
- Problem 3: The Behavior of Large-Scale Plasma Flows
- Planetary Magnetospheres
- Dynamics of the Earth's Magnetosphere
- Magnetohydrodynamic Structures in the Sun's Atmosphere and in the Solar Wind
- Magnetospheres of Neutron Stars
- Magnetohydrodynamic Jets
- General Relativistic Electrodynamics
- Problem 1: Reconnection
- Problem 2: Interaction of Turbulence with Magnetic Fields
- Problem 4: Acceleration of Energetic Particles
- Problem 5: Particle Confinement and Transport
- Problem 6: Collisionless Shocks
- Problem 7: Beam-Plasma Interactions, and the Generation of Radio Emissions
- Problem 8: Interactions Between Plasmas and Neutral Gases
- SPACE AND ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMA PHYSICS IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS
- IMPACT OF RESEARCH ON SPACE AND ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS
- THE ROLE OF SPACE AND GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS
- Solar-System Plasma Physics
- Astrophysical Plasma Physics
- In Situ Measurements near the Sun
- Concluding Remarks
- THE ROLES OF LABORATORY AND ACTIVE SPACE EXPERIMENTS
- Laboratory Experiments
- Active Space Experiments
- THE ROLE OF THEORY
- Space Plasma Theory
- Theoretical Astrophysics
- THE ROLE OF NUMERICAL MODELS AND SIMULATIONS.
- Why Quantitative Models Are Essential.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliography: p. 282 and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610222360
- 9781280222368
- 1280222360
- 9780309542203
- 0309542200
- 9780585085074
- 0585085072
- OCLC:
- 427404799
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