Transport Processes in Plasmas

R. Balescu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

1988
North-Holland Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-0-444-87093-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Existing textbooks on plasma physics usually contain only a minor contribution devoted to plasma transport. The aim of ``Transport Processes in Plasmas'' is to provide a comprehensive and unified presentation of the transport theory in plasmas. This subject is of great importance in general statistical and plasma physics; moreover, it constitutes a keystone in the thermonuclear fusion programme as well as in astro- and geophysics. The subject is presented here by unified concepts, methods and notations. The contents are strongly embedded in a general framework of theoretical physics, appealing to modern Hamiltonian mechanics, kinetic theory, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, etc. The necessary concepts from these disciplines are briefly but completely explained, making the two volumes a self-contained text. Plasma transport theory can be characterised as a truly interdisciplinary activity, and several chapters are included containing the important concepts of these peripheral fields, briefly and completely. Many new features are introduced in those two volumes.

Inhalt

Preface. Volume 1: 1. Motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. 2. The microscopic description of a plasma. 3. The macroscopic description of a plasma. 4. The Hermitian moment representation. 5. The classical transport theory. 6. Entropy and transport. 7. Magnetohydrodynamics. General appendix G1: Basis functions in velocity space. Volume 2: 8. Toroidal magnetic confinement. 9. The motion of charged particles in toroidal magnetic fields. 10. Kinetic equation and local equilibrium of a magnetically confined plasma. 11. Approximation methods for the kinetic equation. 12. Particle and energy fluxes in magnetically confined plasmas. 13. The classical fluxes and the Pfirsch-Schluter effect. 14. Solution of the drift kinetic equation in the long mean free path regime. 15. The banana transport equations. 16. The intermediate mean free path regime. Interpolation formulae for the transport coefficients. 17. Entropy production in magnetically confined plasmas. 18. Toroidal plasmadynamics. 19. The limitations of the classical and neoclassical transport theories. The runaway effect. General appendix 2: Curvilinear coordinate systems. Author index. Subject index. Index of notations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.1988
• Verlagsort: Amsterdam
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Plasmaphysik
• ISBN-10: 0-444-87093-8 / 0444870938
• ISBN-13: 978-0-444-87093-3 / 9780444870933
• Zustand: Neuware