Double layers : potential formation and related nonlinear phenomena in plasmas

Author(s)

• Sendai Plasma Forum
• Symposium on Double Layers-Potential Formation and Related Nonlinear Phenomena in Plasmas

Bibliographic Information

Double layers : potential formation and related nonlinear phenomena in plasmas

edited by Sendai "Plasma Forum"

World Scientific, c1997

Note

"Papers presented at the 5th Symposium on Double Layers-Potential Formation and Related Nonlinear Phenomena in Plasmas (PFNL-96), which was held at Sendai in 1996"--Preface

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book deals with modern plasma physics and engineering, focusing on space, laboratory and fusion-oriented plasmas. It is topical and pedagogical in nature.

Table of Contents

• Double layers, sheaths and potential structures: double layers
• sheaths
• potential structures and oscillations. Field-aligned electric fields and related particle accelerations: field-aligned potential formation
• particle accelerations. Cross-field electric fields, velocity shear and vortex formation: cross-field potential structures
• velocity shear
• vortex formation. Solitons, shocks, waves and instabilities, and related nonlinear phenomena: solitons and shocks
• waves and instabilities
• nonlinear phenomena.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA43767654
• ISBN:
  • 9810233019
• LCCN: 98162633
• Country Code: si
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Singapore ; River Edge, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 442 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QB462.7
  • DC21 : 530.4/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Double layers (Astrophysics) -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Plasma astrophysics -- Congresses
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