Plasma modeling : methods and applications /

Plasma Modeling: Methods and Applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling, giving details about theoretical and numerical methods. The book is intended to assist and direct students and researchers, who want to develop research activity in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Colonna, Gianpiero (Author), D'Angola, Antonio (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2016]
Series:	IOP plasma physics series. IOP expanding physics. IOP (Series). Release 3.
Subjects:	SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular. Plasma Physics. Space plasmas > Mathematical models. Plasma (Ionized gases) > Mathematical models. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

part III. Applications
10. Radio frequency inductively coupled discharges in thermal plasmas
11. Atmospheric pressure plasmas operating in high-frequency fields
12. High-enthalpy radiating flows in aerophysics
13. Dust-plasma interaction : a review of dust charging theory and simulation
14. Verification and validation in plasma physics.
part II. Fluid and hybrid models
6. Fluid equations : derivation and simulation
7. Magnetohydrodynamics equations
8. Self-consistent kinetics
9. Hybrid models
Preface
part I. Kinetic theory
1. Boltzmann and Vlasov equations in plasma physics
2. The two-term Boltzmann equation
3. Multi-term and non-local electron Boltzmann equation
4. Particle-based simulation of plasmas
5. The ergodic method : plasma dynamics through a sequence of equilibrium states