Cap Handbook on Plasma Instabilities

Volume 3
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-7105-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 494 Seiten, Web PDF

Handbook on Plasma Instabilities, Volume 3, is primarily intended to serve as a sourcebook for obtaining quick information and literature references pertaining to a specific topic. Such a handbook has to be formulated in a way that enables understanding of any one section without requiring full understanding of any other section. Volume 1 (Chapters 1-13) presents the fundamental concepts of plasma physics with applications, and has more the nature of a textbook treating basic plasma physics, containment, waves, and macroscopic instabilities. Volume 2 (Chapters 14-17) covers various aspects of microinstabilities, beam plasma systems, stabilization methods, and parametric effects. The present volume (Chapters 18-22) starts with a discussion on feedback and dynamic stabilization using parametric and other effects. It then treats nonlinear effects and laser-plasma systems. One chapter is devoted to applications and use of instabilities. It concludes with a report on plasma waves and instabilities in cosmic space.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cap, Ferdinand F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Handbook on Plasma Instabilities;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;8
6;Contents of Volumes 1 and 2;10
7;List of Symbols;12
8;Chapter 18. Feedback and Dynamic Stabilization;24
8.1;18.1 Fundamentals;24
8.2;18.2 Theory of Feedback Stabilization;32
8.3;18.3 Feedback Stabilization of Macroscopic Instabilities;41
8.4;18.4 Feedback Stabilization of Microscopic Instabilities;57
8.5;18.5 Theory of Dynamic Stabilization;63
8.6;18.6 Dynamic Stabilization of Macroscopic Instabilities;72
8.7;18.7 Dynamic Stabilization of Microscopic Instabilities;84
8.8;18.8 Nonlinear Effects in Feedback and Dynamic Stabilization;105
9;Chapter 19. Nonlinear Effects;120
9.1;19.1 Classification and Survey;120
9.2;19.2 Large Amplitude Waves and Solitons;128
9.3;19.3 Wave-Wave Interaction;156
9.4;19.4 Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interaction;166
9.5;19.5 Nonlinear Stabilization of Instabilities;181
9.6;19.6 Turbulence, Fluctuations, and Turbulent Transport;189
9.7;19.7 Plasma Echoes;200
9.8;19.8 Intrinsic Nonlinear Instabilities;205
9.9;19.9 Nonlinear Mathematical and Numerical Methods;215
10;Chapter 20. Laser Plasmas;218
10.1;20.1 Laser Fusion;218
10.2;20.2 Lasers;220
10.3;20.3 Plasma Production and Heating;220
10.4;20.4 Critical Density and Profile Modification;222
10.5;20.5 Light Reflection and Absorption;226
10.6;20.6 Instabilities;232
10.7;20.7 Generation of Harmonics and Nonlinear Effects;233
10.8;20.8 Spontaneous Generation of Magnetic Fields;237
11;Chapter 21. Applications and Use of Instabilities and Waves;240
11.1;21.1 Plasma Heating Methods;240
11.2;21.2 Radiofrequency Heating;247
11.3;21.3 Heating by Instabilities and by Electrostatic Waves;261
11.4;21.4 Current Drive, Particle Acceleration, and Other Applications;267
11.5;21.5 Turbulent and Stochastic Heating;272
11.6;21.6 Instabilities in Solid State Plasmas;276
12;Chapter 22. Plasma Instabilities in Cosmic Space;282
12.1;22.1 Solar and Stellar Plasma;282
12.2;22.2 Solar Wind, Interplanetary, and Interstellar Plasma;285
12.3;22.3 Particle Trapping and the Radiation Belts;291
12.4;22.4 The Ionosphere;298
12.5;22.5 Magnetospheres;301
12.6;22.6 Waves and Particle Emissions, Cosmic Rays, Pulsars, and Quasars;312
12.7;22.7 Shock Waves, Turbulence, Dynamo Effect;317
13;References;322
14;Index;444
15;Errata for Volumes 1 and 2;494