| Before retiring, T.J.M. BOYD was Professor of Physics at the University of Essex. He has taught graduate students on plasma physics courses in Europe and North America. His research interests have included atomic eollision theory, computational physics and plasma physics. Professor Boyd has co-authored two previous books, Plasma Dynamics (1969) with J.J. Sanderson, and Electricity (1979) with C.A. Coulson. . JEFF SANDERSON is Professor Emeri.. << 查看详细 |
| preface. 1 introduction 1.1 introduction 1.2 thermonuclear fusion 1.3 plasmas in space 1.4 plasma characteristics 2 particle orbit theory 2.1 introduction 2.2 constant homogeneous magnetic field 2.3 constant homogeneous electric and magnetic fields 2.4 inhomogeneous magnetic field 2.5 particle drifts and plasma currents 2.6 time-varying magnetic field and adiabatic invariance 2.7 magnetic mirrors 2.8 the longitudinal adiabatic invariant 2.9 magnetic flux as an adiabatic invariant 2.10 particle orbits in tokamaks 2.11 adiabatic invariance and particle acceleration 2.12 polarization drift 2.13 particle motion at relativistic energies .2.14 the ponderomotive force 2.15 the guiding centre approximation: a postscript 3 macroscopic equations 3.1 introduction 3.2 fluid description of a plasma 3.3 the mhd equations 3.4 applicability of the mhd equations 3.5 plasma wave equations 3.6 boundary conditions 4 ideal magnetohydrodynamics 4.1 introduction 4.2 conservation relations 4.3 static equilibria 4.4 solar mhd equilibria 4.5 stability of ideal mhd equilibria 4.6 the energy principle 4.7 interchange instabilities 4.8 ideal mhd waves 5 resistive magnetohydrodynamics 5.1 introduction 5.2 magnetic relaxation and reconnection 5.3 resistive instabilities 5.4 magnetic field generation 5.5 the solar wind 5.6 mhd shocks 6 waves in unbounded homogeneous plasmas 6.1 introduction.. 6.2 some basic wave concepts 6.3 waves in cold plasmas 6.4 waves in warm plasmas 6.5 instabilities in beam-plasma systems 6.6 absolute and convective instabilities 7 collisionless kinetic theory 7.1 introduction 7.2 vlasov equation 7.3 landau damping 7.4 micro-instabilities 7.5 amplifying waves 7.6 the bemstein modes 7.7 inhomogeneous plasma 7.8 test particle in a vlasov plasma 8 collisional kinetic theory 8.1 introduction 8.2 simple transport coefficients 8.3 neoclassical transport 8.4 fokker-planck equation 8.5 collisional parameters 8.6 collisional relaxation 9 plasma radiation 9.1 introduction 9.2 electrodynamics of radiation fields 9.3 radiation transport in a plasma 9.4 plasma bremsstrahlung 9.5 electron cyclotron radiation 9.6 synchrotron radiation 9.7 scattering of radiation by plasmas 9.8 coherent thomson scattering 9.9 coherent thomson scattering: experimental verification 10 non-linear plasma physics 10.1 introduction 10.2 non-linear landau theory 10.3 wave-wave interactions 10.4 zakharov equations 10.5 collisionless shocks 11 aspects ofinhomogeneous plasmas 11.1 introduction 11.2 wkbj model of inhomogeneous plasma 11.3 behaviour near a resonance 11.4 linear mode conversion 11.5 stimulated raman scattering 11.6 radiation from langmuir waves 11.7 effects in bounded plasmas 12 the classical theory of plasmas 12.1 introduction 12.2 dynamics of a many-body system 12.3 equilibrium pair correlation function 12.4 the landau equation 12.5 moment equations 12.6 classical transport theory 12.7 mhd equations appendix 1 numerical values of physical constants and plasma parameters appendix 2 list of symbols references index... |
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