Space Plasma: Volume 1, Theory and Main Properties
Author: I︠A︡kov Lʹvovich Alʹpert
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1990-04-19
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521389716
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Author: I︠A︡kov Lʹvovich Alʹpert
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1990-04-19
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521389716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luis Conde
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1643271741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe growing number of scientific and technological applications of plasma physics in the field of Aerospace Engineering requires that graduate students and professionals understand their principles. This introductory book is the expanded version of class notes of lectures I taught for several years to students of Aerospace Engineering and Physics. It is intended as a reading guide, addressed to students and non-specialists to tackle later with more advanced texts. To make the subject more accessible the book does not follow the usual organization of standard textbooks in this field and is divided in two parts. The first introduces the basic kinetic theory (molecular collisions, mean free path, etc.) of neutral gases in equilibrium in connection to the undergraduate physics courses. The basic properties of ionized gases and plasmas (Debye length, plasma frequencies, etc.) are addressed in relation to their equilibrium states and the collisional processes at the microscopic level. The physical description of short and long-range (Coulomb) collisions and the more relevant collisions (elementary processes) between electrons' ions and neutral atoms or molecules are discussed. The second part introduces the physical description of plasmas as a statistical system of interacting particles introducing advanced concepts of kinetic theory, (non-equilibrium distribution functions, Boltzmann collision operator, etc). The fluid transport equations for plasmas of electron ions and neutral atoms and the hydrodynamic models of interest in space science and plasma technology are derived. The plasma production in the laboratory in the context of the physics of electric breakdown is also discussed. Finally, among the myriad of aerospace applications of plasma physics, the low pressure microwave electron multipactor breakdown and plasma thrusters for space propulsion are presented in two separate chapters.
Author: S. Peter Gary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-09-16
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780521431675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the linear theory of waves and instabilities that propagate in a collisionless plasma.
Author: D. A. Gurnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-01-06
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521364836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvanced undergraduate/beginning graduate text on space and laboratory plasma physics.
Author: H. Alfvèn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9400983743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe general background of this monograph and the aim of it is described in detail in Chapter I. As stated in 1.7 it is written according to the principle that "when rigour appears to conflict with simplicity, simplicity is given preference", which means that it is intended for a rather broad public. Not only graduate students but also advanced undergraduates should be able to understand at least most of it. This monograph is the result of many years of inspiring discussions with a number of colleagues, for which I want to thank them very much. Especially I should mention the groups in Stockholm and La Jolla: in Stockholm, Dr Carl-Gunne Flilthammar and many of his collaborators, including Drs Lars Block, Per Carlqvist, Lennart lindberg, Michael Raadu, Staffan Torven, Miroslav Babic, and Itlgvar Axniis, and further, Drs Bo Lehnert and Bjorn Bonnevier, all at the Royal Institute of Technology. Of other col leagues in Sweden, I should mention Dr Bertel Laurent, Stockholm University, Dr Aina Elvius, The Stockholm Observatory, and Dr Bengt Hultqvist, Kiruna. In La Jolla my thanks go first of all to Dr Gustaf Arrhenius, who once invited me to La Jolla, which was the start of a most interesting collaboration; further, to Dr W.B.
Author: New York Public Library
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: I︠A︡kov Lʹvovich Alʹpert
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1990-04-19
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521389723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald A. Gurnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-20
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 1107027373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroducing the principles and applications of plasma physics, this new edition is ideal as an advanced undergraduate or graduate-level text.
Author: T. J. M. Boyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-01-23
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780521459129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Physics of Plasmas provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject, illustrating the basic theory with examples drawn from fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas. A particular strength of the book is its discussion of the various models used to describe plasma physics and the relationships between them. These include particle orbit theory, fluid equations, ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics, wave equations and kinetic theory. The reader will gain a firm grounding in the fundamentals, and develop this into an understanding of some of the more specialised topics. Throughout the text, there is an emphasis on the physical interpretation of plasma phenomena. Exercises are provided throughout. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students of physics, applied mathematics, astronomy and engineering will find a clear but rigorous explanation of the fundamental properties of plasmas with minimal mathematical formality. This book will also appeal to research physicists, nuclear and electrical engineers.
Author: Ya. G. Sinai
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1483158497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheory of Phase Transitions: Rigorous Results is inspired by lectures on mathematical problems of statistical physics presented in the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. The aim of the book is to expound a series of rigorous results about the theory of phase transitions. The book consists of four chapters, wherein the first chapter discusses the Hamiltonian, its symmetry group, and the limit Gibbs distributions corresponding to a given Hamiltonian. The second chapter studies the phase diagrams of lattice models that are considered at low temperatures. The notions of a ground state of a Hamiltonian and the stability of the set of the ground states of a Hamiltonian are also introduced. Chapter 3 presents the basic theorems about lattice models with continuous symmetry, and Chapter 4 focuses on the second-order phase transitions and on the theory of scaling probability distributions, connected to these phase transitions. Specialists in statistical physics and other related fields will greatly benefit from this publication.