The Physics of Alfven Waves - Hardcover

Cramer, Neil Francis

9783527402939: The Physics of Alfven Waves

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3527402934 ISBN 13: 9783527402939

Publisher: Vch Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh, 2001

Low-frequency wave modes of magnetized inhomogeneous plasmas have been subject to intense study in the last decade because they play important roles in the transport of energy in the plasmas. The "Alfv�n wave heating" scheme has been investigated as a supplementary heating scheme for fusion plasma devices, and it has been invoked as a model of the heating of the solar and stellar coronae.
This book covers the latest research into the properties and applications of low-frequency wave modes in magnetized plasmas, the Alfv�n waves and magneto-acoustic waves, in the context of laboratory, space and astrophysical plasmas. In particular, non-ideal effects on the dispersion relation and absorption properties of linear and non-linear waves are included, such as ion-cyclotron effects, friction between the ionized plasma and a background gas of neutral atoms, and the interaction of the plasma with dust particles.
The book also surveys the theory of Alfv�n and magnetoacoustic waves in inhomogeneous plasmas, as occur in realistic laboratory, space and astrophysical plasmas, with resulting localized wave modes such as surface waves. Waves are considered under a variety of plasma conditions, ranging from cold cosmic plasmas, to hot laboratory and solar plasmas, to the relativistic plasmas around pulsars.

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The most important plasma & related journals are (in no particular order):

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Journal of Plasma Physics (Cambridge)
Physics of Plasmas (AIP)
IEEE Transactions in Plasma Science
Phys Rev E
Journal of Physics D
Applied Physics
Solar Physics
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysical Journal
Nuclear Fusion
Astrophysics and Space Science

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