NONLINEAR PLASMA KINETICS (V.N.Tsytovich)
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- 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:
- V.N. Tsytovich. Lectures on non-linear plasma kinetics
- R.Z. Sagdeev, A.A. Galeev. Nonlinear plasma theory
- V.N. Tsytovich. Nonlinear effects in plasma
- V.N. Tsytovich. Theory of turbulent plasma
- A. Kaplan, V.N. Tsytovich. Plasma astrophysics
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