Preface |
Plasma formulary |
Introduction to plasma theory / Part I: |
Introduction / 1: |
Preliminary remarks / 1.1: |
Langmuir waves and ion sound waves / 1.2: |
Cerenkov emission and Landau damping / 1.3: |
The response tensor / 1.4: |
The Landau prescription / 1.5: |
Exercise set 1 |
The response of an unmagnetized plasma / 2: |
The cold plasma approach / 2.1: |
The Vlasov approach / 2.2: |
Maxwellian distributions / 2.3: |
The dispersion equation / 2.4: |
The absorption coefficient / 2.5: |
Formal theory of weakly damped waves / 2.6: |
Exercise set 2 |
Instabilities in unmagnetized plasmas / Part II: |
Reactive instabilities / 3: |
Effect of a beam on wave dispersion / 3.1: |
The counter-streaming instability / 3.2: |
The weak-beam instability / 3.3: |
Suppression due to increasing velocity spread / 3.4: |
The Buneman instability / 3.5: |
The Weibel instability / 3.6: |
Interpretation of complex solutions / 3.7: |
Exercise set 3 |
Kinetic instabilities / 4: |
The bump-in-tail instability / 4.1: |
Quasilinear relaxation: the time-asymptotic state / 4.2: |
Current and ion-beam driven growth of ion sound waves / 4.3: |
Heat conduction and ion sound turbulence / 4.4: |
Loss cone instability for Langmuir waves / 4.5: |
Axisymmetric distributions: general case / 4.6: |
Exercise set 4 |
Particle motions in waves / 5: |
Perturbations in the orbit of a single particle / 5.1: |
Phase bunching and reactive growth / 5.2: |
Wave trapping / 5.3: |
Interpretation of the kinetic instability / 5.4: |
The forward-scattering method and the time-asymptotic assumption / 5.5: |
The ponderomotive force / 5.6: |
Exercise set 5 |
Weak turbulence theory / 6: |
The emission formula: Cerenkov emission / 6.1: |
Probabilities for nonlinear processes / 6.2: |
Kinetic equations / 6.3: |
Scattering of Langmuir waves off thermal ions / 6.4: |
Scattering of Langmuir waves by ion sound waves / 6.5: |
Plasma emission / 6.6: |
Exercise set 6 |
Nonlinear instabilities and strong turbulence / 7: |
Nonlinear correction to the dispersion equation / 7.1: |
Parametric instabilities / 7.2: |
The free electron maser: plasma laser / 7.3: |
The Zakharov equations and strong Langmuir turbulence / 7.4: |
Solitons / 7.5: |
Exercise set 7 |
Collision-dominated magnetized plasmas / Part III: |
Magnetohydrodynamics / 8: |
The MHD equations / 8.1: |
Small amplitude MHD waves / 8.2: |
Surface waves / 8.3: |
The MHD energy principle / 8.4: |
Jump conditions at a discontinuity / 8.5: |
MHD shock waves / 8.6: |
Exercise set 8 |
MHD instabilities / 9: |
Ideal MHD instabilities / 9.1: |
The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability / 9.2: |
Collisions and transport coefficients / 9.3: |
Magnetic merging and reconnection / 9.4: |
Tearing instabilities / 9.5: |
Exercise set 9 |
Instabilities in magnetized collisionless plasmas / Part IV: |
Dispersion in a magnetized plasma / 10: |
Dielectric tensors / 10.1: |
The cold plasma modes / 10.2: |
The magnetoionic modes / 10.3: |
Low frequency modes / 10.4: |
Quasilinear equations for B [not equal] 0 / 10.5: |
Exercise set 10 |
Electron cyclotron maser emission / 11: |
Classification of gyromagnetic processes / 11.1: |
The gyrotron instability / 11.2: |
The parallel-driven cyclotron maser / 11.3: |
The perpendicular-driven cyclotron maser / 11.4: |
Applications of electron cyclotron maser emission / 11.5: |
Phase bunching and wave trapping / 11.6: |
Exercise set 11 |
Instabilities in warm and in inhomogeneous plasmas / 12: |
Longitudinal waves in warm plasmas / 12.1: |
'Parallel' cyclotron waves / 12.2: |
Ion cyclotron waves in multi-ion plasmas / 12.3: |
The Bernstein modes / 12.4: |
Drift motions and the drift kinetic equation / 12.5: |
Dielectric tensor for an inhomogeneous plasma / 12.6: |
Drift waves / 12.7: |
Exercise set 12 |
Instabilities due to anisotropic fast particles / 13: |
Resonant scattering / 13.1: |
Whistler waves in the magnetosphere: quasilinear theory / 13.2: |
Discrete VLF emissions / 13.3: |
Scattering of streaming cosmic rays / 13.4: |
Small amplitude Fermi acceleration / 13.5: |
Acceleration at shock fronts / 13.6: |
Exercise set 13 |
The plasma dispersion function / Appendix A: |
Bessel functions / Appendix B: |
Collision frequencies / Appendix C: |
Transport coefficients / Appendix D: |
Bibliographical notes |
References |
List of commonly used symbols |
Author index |
Subject index |
Preface |
Plasma formulary |
Introduction to plasma theory / Part I: |