Low frequency waves and turbulence in magnetized laboratory plasmas and in the ionosphere / Hans Pécseli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pécseli, Hans, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 3.

IOP expanding physics

IOP plasma physics series.

[IOP release 3]

IOP expanding physics, 2053-2563

IOP plasma physics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plasma (Ionized gases).

Space plasmas.

Plasma turbulence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2016]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Hans Pécseli is professor in plasma-space physics at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has contributed to the literature on plasma and space physics, meteorology and also marine biology. Professor Pécseli served as a member of the sub-committees of the national science foundations in Norway and Denmark, and as consultant for the national science foundations in Sweden and Finland. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Summary:

Low Frequency Waves and Turbulence in Magnetized Laboratory Plasmas and in the Ionosphere was developed from courses taught by the author at the universities of Oslo and Tromso in Norway. Suitable for undergraduates, graduate students and researchers, the first part of the book is devoted to discussing some relevant plasma instabilities and the free energy that drives them. In the second part, the more advanced topics of nonlinear models and the interactions of many modes are discussed. Theoretical tools available for turbulence modelling are also outlined. The book summarizes a number of studies of low-frequency plasma waves, drift waves in particular, from laboratory and space experiments.

Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction

part I. Plasma basics

2. Basic concepts of the motion of charged particles

3. Collisions in magnetized plasmas

part II. Electrostatic fluid models

4. The basic model for drift waves

5. Simplified linear wave analysis

6. Resistive drift waves with cold ions

7. Resistive drift waves with warm ions

8. Electrostatic drift waves with viscosity due to ion-ion collisions

9. Experimental results

10. Velocity shear driven instabilities

11. Ionospheric conditions

12. Inhomogeneous plasma temperatures

13. Waves in a gravitational plasma ionosphere

part III. Linear kinetic models

14. Kinetic models for electrostatic drift waves

part IV. Linear drift Alfvén waves

15. Electromagnetic modes

part V. Weakly nonlinear waves

16. Classifications of turbulence conditions

17. Weakly nonlinear waves in homogeneously magnetized plasmas

18. Weakly nonlinear electrostatic drift waves

part VI. Randomly varying fields and turbulence

19. Elements of statistical analysis

20. A reference model

21. Random walk and classical diffusion

22. Turbulence in two and three spatial dimensions

23. Low frequency turbulence in magnetized plasmas

24. Turbulence in the ionosphere

25. Turbulent diffusion

part VII. Analytical tools in turbulence

26. Langevin's model for Brownian motion

27. Markov processes

28. The quasi-normal approximation

29. The direct interaction approximation

30. Diagram methods

Appendices. A. List of symbols used in the analysis of electrostatic drift waves

B. Chemistry of the ionosphere

C. Collisional cross-sections

D. Negative temperatures.

Notes:

"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 7, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750312516

9780750312530

OCLC:

965604965

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