Umran S. Inan, Marek Go¿kowski

Principles of Plasma Physics for Engineers and Scientists

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Senior undergraduate/graduate introductory course text which combines mathematical rigor and qualitative explanations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9780521193726
• ISBN-10: 0521193729
• Artikelnr.: 31193397

Autorenporträt

Umran Inan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he has led pioneering research in plasma physics and electromagnetics for over 30 years. As a committed teacher, he has authored two previous books that have become standard textbooks for electromagnetics courses, as well as receiving numerous awards including the Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and Outstanding Service Award from the Electrical Engineering Department for Excellence in Teaching. He is a fellow of both the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Single particle motion
3. Kinetic theory of plasmas
4. Moments of the Boltzmann equation
5. Multiple fluid theory of plasmas
6. Single fluid theory of plasmas: magnetohydrodynamics
7. Collisions and plasma conductivity
8. Plasma diffusion
9. Introduction to waves in plasmas
10. Waves in cold magnetized plasmas
11. Effects of collisions, ions and finite temperature on waves in magnetized plasmas
12. Waves in hot plasmas
13. Plasma sheath and the Langmuir probe
Appendix A. Derivation of second moment of the Boltzmann equation
Appendix B. Useful vector identities.