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NONLINEAR PLASMA KINETICS
(V.N.Tsytovich)

  • Collective plasma oscillations
    • Elementary description
    • Debye screening and Debye sphere
    • Langmuir and ion-sound plasma oscillations
    • Landau damping
  • Random collective excitations and quasi-linear interactions
    • Distribution function for plasma oscillations
    • Correlation function for random fields
    • Energy density of random motion
    • Vavilov-Cherenkov emission and Landau damping
    • Quasi-linear equation and relaxation of beams in a plasma
  • Fluctuations and particle collisions
    • Averaged distributions and fluctuations
    • Fluctuations of independent and charged particles
    • Landau-Balescu collision integral
    • Conservation laws
    • Probabilities for particle collisions in a plasma
  • General theory of non-linear interactions
    • Classification of interactions
    • General theory of weak non-linear interactions
    • Non-linear plasma responses
    • Approximate expression for the non-linear responses for Langmuir and ion-sound waves
    • Non-linear changes in the particle distributions
  • Stimulated scattering of waves by particles
    • A simple physical picture
    • Description of the stimulated scattering processes of waves
    • Conservation laws
    • Scattering probabilities for Langmuir and ion-sound waves
    • Transition scattering
    • Change in the particle distribution due to stimulated wave scattering
  • Plasma turbulence
    • The general concept of turbulence
    • Langmuir and ion-sound turbulences
    • Anomalous plasma resistivity
    • Non-linear stabilization of a beam-plasma instability
    • Turbulent shock waves
  • Non-linear decay interactions
    • General concepts
    • The balance equation and conservation laws
    • Probability of the decay interactions
    • Decay processes and the turbulent spectrum
    • Scattering in a strongly turbulent plasma
    • Non-linear modulational interactions
    • Non-linear frequency shift and modulational interactions
    • Kinetic and hydrodynamic linear instabilities
    • General theory of modulational interactions
    • Modulational instabilities
    • Conservation Laws
    • Solitons. Self-contracting cavitons
     
  • LITERATURE:
    1. V.N. Tsytovich. Lectures on non-linear plasma kinetics
    2. R.Z. Sagdeev, A.A. Galeev. Nonlinear plasma theory
    3. V.N. Tsytovich. Nonlinear effects in plasma
    4. V.N. Tsytovich. Theory of turbulent plasma
    5. A. Kaplan, V.N. Tsytovich. Plasma astrophysics

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