Plasma physics

This book describes the basic principles and techniques of cold plasma to synthesize nanomaterials, emphasizing the fundamentals.

This book focuses on the physics of laser plasma interactions and presents a complementary and very useful numerical model of plasmas.

Computation is essential to our modern understanding of nuclear systems.

Although computer technology has dramatically improved the analysis of complex transport phenomena, the methodology has yet to be effectively integrated into engineering curricula.

The Compound-Nuclear Reaction and Related Topics (CNR*) international workshop series was initiated in 2007 with a meeting near Yosemite National Park.

This book addresses microwave chemistry at both the physical and molecular level.

The series of books discusses the physics of laser and matter interaction, fluid dynamics of high-temperature and high-density compressible plasma, and kinetic phenomena and particle dynamics in laser-produced plasma.

A systematic overview of the kinetic theory of weak plasma turbulence, including the foundational concepts and mathematical and technical details.

This textbook provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to Nonlinear Elasticity aimed at undergraduate students in a compact text.

Microscopic Dynamics of Plasmas and Chaos discusses the resonant wave-particle interaction in plasmas, provides the tools for chaotic Hamiltonian dynamics, and describes a turbulent macroscopic system through the chaotic classical mechanics of the corresponding N-body problem.

Newcomers to the field of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) often have difficulty establishing a clear picture of the overall field.

This book contains the Proceedings of the 25th International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 10th Free Electron Laser Users Workshop, which were held on September 8-12, 2003 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki in Japan.

This book leads the reader from the well-established wave description of polaritons to their particle description to quantify the polariton contribution to the heat transport along polar and metallic nanofilms, nanowires, and cavities.

Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessors, High Power Microwaves, Fourth Edition continues to provide a wide-angle, integrated view of the field of high power microwaves (HPMs).

This book collects papers presented in the Invited Workshop, "e;Liutex and Third Generation of Vortex Definition and Identification for Turbulence,"e; from CHAOS2020, June 9-12, 2020, which was held online as a virtual conference.

With easily accessible oil reserves dwindling, petroleum engineers must have a sound understanding of how to access technically challenging resources, especially in the deepwater environment.

This second volume in the Handai Nanophotonics book series covers the area of Nanoplasmonics, a recent hot topic in the field of nanophotonics, impacting a diverse range of research disciplines from information technology and nanotechnology to the bio- and medical sciences.

The second edition of Reverse Engineering of Algebraic Inequalities is a comprehensively updated new edition demonstrating the exploration of new physical realities in various unrelated domains of human activity through reverse engineering of algebraic inequalities.

This book addresses the peculiarities of nonlinear wave propagation in waveguides and explains how the stratification depends on the waveguide and confinement.

Mathematical Modelling of Waves in Multi-Scale Structured Media presents novel analytical and numerical models of waves in structured elastic media, with emphasis on the asymptotic analysis of phenomena such as dynamic anisotropy, localisation, filtering and polarisation as well as on the modelling of photonic, phononic, and platonic crystals.

This book will explore the fundamentals of spacecraft charging: why it occurs, when it occurs, where it occurs, how to measure it, and its side effects.

This updated introductory textbook, with added learning features, explains how the Sun influences the Earth and its near-space environment.

Develops a fresh mathematical approach to coronal seismology, explaining oscillatory phenomena by drawing upon original research and complex modelling techniques.

Superfluidity is the jewel in the crown of low temperature physics.

Capillary Flows with Forming Interfaces explores numerous theoretical problems that arise in the mathematical description of capillary flows.

This book is intended for academic researchers and graduate students in the field of partially ionized plasmas.

This book introduces the traditional and novel techniques required to study the thermodynamic and transport properties of quark-gluon plasma.

This book is the first to present flow measurement as an independent branch of the measurement techniques, according to a new global and unitary approach for the measurement of fluid flow field, starting from finding its unitary fundamental bases.

Coanda effect is a complex fluid flow phenomenon enabling the production of vertical take-off/landing aircraft.

With examples throughout, this step-by-step approach makes quantum theory of plasmons accessible to readers without specialized training in theory.

This is the third in a series of three volumes of proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC 2022) which was held by Chinese Nuclear Society.

An Introduction to Compressible Flow, Second Edition covers the material typical of a single-semester course in compressible flow.

A clear and authoritative book on all the fundamental physical processes graduate students need for research in astrophysics and cosmology.

This book is the fourth of 15 related monographs presents systematically a theory of crossing-cubic nonlinear systems.

Introducing the principles and applications of plasma physics, this new edition is ideal as an advanced undergraduate or graduate-level text.

This book presents the fundamental concepts of the theory, illustrated by numerous examples of astrophysical applications.

Nuclear physics began one century ago during the "e;miraculous decade"e; - tween 1895 and 1905 when the foundations of practically all modern physics were established.

This book presents detailed aspects of different fields of molecular spectroscopy.

A complete and up-to-date summary of power exhaust in fusion plasmas, for academic researchers and graduate students in plasma physics.

These proceedings present a selection of invited and contributed papers presented during the 18th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (the 18th ICXRL), held in Shanghai, China, from 17 to 21 July 2023.

This volume provides a broad overview in the increasingly important field of laser-plasma interactions.

Written by a leading expert in the field, Industrial Plasma Engineering, Volume 2: Applications to Nonthermal Plasma Processing provides a background in the principles and applications of low temperature, partially ionized Lorentzian plasmas that are used industrially.

The classical electrodynamics of point charges has a long history.

The theory of waves is generalized on cases of strongly nonlinear waves, multivalued waves, and particle-waves.

This textbook treats Hydro- and Fluid Dynamics, the engineering science dealing with forces and energies generated by fluids in motion, playing a vital role in everyday life.

Provides a comprehensive review and usable problem-solving techniques for aerospace engineering plasma applications.

Unstable Nature is a popular science book offering a journey through the concept of instability in modern science with a focus on physics.

This book provides the latest achievements and original research work in physics of combustion processes and application of the methods developed in combustion physics for astrophysical problems of stars burning, supernovae explosions and a confined thermonuclear fusion.

This new edition of Classical Mechanics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics describes the motions of rigid bodies and shows how classical mechanics has important applications to geophysics, as in the precessions of the earth, oceanic tides, and the retreat of the moon from the earth owing to the tidal friction.