Microscopic Dynamics of Plasmas and Chaos : Series in Plasma Physics - D.F  Escande
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Microscopic Dynamics of Plasmas and Chaos

By: D.F Escande, Y Elskens

Hardcover | 23 October 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This volume argues that novel methods in the kinetic theory of plasma physics are much needed since the standard treatment of microscopic dynamics is antiquated and not at all intuitive. The method introduced here by the authors is a general and elementary classical mechanics formulation of wave-particle interactions (central to any high-energy plasma physics scenario such as microwave heating of fusion plasmas, auroral acceleration and even in treatments of the damping of the spiral arms of galaxies in gravitational plasmas). It should be of interest to mathematicians, physicists, theoretical physicists and statistical physicists. Building on this conceptual base, the authors provide a new set of basic tools to tackle problems of non-linear physics and chaos theory.
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"A well-balanced book offering a solid and detailed insight into physical processes and mathematical tools essential to the kinetic theory of the particle and wave dynamics of electrostatic plasmas. It can serve well as a useful and up-to-date reference book both to those active in pure scientific research as well as to those involved in pedagogical work including graduate students. Numerous problems and exercises formulated throughout each of the main nine chapters, additional clarifications given in seven appendices, and a broad list of relevant references at the end of the book help readers to obtain a better and more detailed insight into plasma kinetics."
-Zentralblatt MATH

"Some of the key intellectual foundations of plasma physics are in danger of becoming a lost art. Fortunately, however, this threat recedes with the publication of this valuable book. It renders accessible those aspects of theoretical plasma physics that are best approached from the perspective of classical mechanics, in both its early nineteenth-century and late twentieth-century manifestations. ... Certainly it is a book that should be read backwards and sideways, as well as forwards ... Altogether, this book provides a wealth of theoretical information that is not easily accessible from any other source. It is a book with character, written from a definite viewpoint, but it also facilitates the development of the readers' own perspective by offering a clear path to the original research literature."
-R.O. Dendy, Journal of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

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