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1 online resource (197 pages) |
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880-01 Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Editor's Forword; Preface; Contents; 1. Basic Concepts and Two-Fluid Description of Plasmas; 1.1 Basic Plasma Concepts; 1.2 The Vlasov Equation; 1.3 The Moment Equations; 1.4 The Two-Fluid Description of Plasma; 1.5 Plasma Waves; 1.6 Debye Shielding; 2. Computer Simulation of Plasmas Using Particle Codes; 2 .1 Basic Ingredients of a Particle Code; 2.2 A 1-D Electrostatic Particle Code; 3. Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Plasmas; 3.1 Wave Equation for Light Waves in a Plasma; 3.2 WKB Solution for Wave Propagation in an Inhomogeneous Plasma |
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880-01/(S 6. Parametric Excitation of Electron and Ion Waves6.1 Coupling via Ion Density Fluctuations; 6.2 The Ponderomotive Force; 6.3 Instabilities -- A Physical Picture; 6.4 Instability Analysis; 6.5 Dispersion Relation; 6.6 Instability Threshold due to Spatial Inhomogeneity; 6.7 Effect of Incoherence hi the Pump Wave; 7. Stimulated Raman Scattering; 7.1 Instability Analysis; 7.2 Dispersion Relation; 7.3 Instability Thresholds; 7.4 The 2ω[sub(pe)] Instability; 8. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering; 8.1 Instability Analysis; 8.2 Dispersion Relation; 8.3 Instability Thresholds |
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3.3 Analytic Solution for Plasma with a Constant Density Gradient4. Propagation of Obliquely Incident Light Waves in Inhomogeneous Plasmas; 4 .1 Obliquely Incident S-polarized Light Waves; 4.2 Obliquely Incident P-polarized Light Waves -- Resonance Absorption; 5. Collisional Absorption of Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas; 5.1 Collisional Damping of Light Waves; 5.2 Collisional Damping of a Light Wave in an Inhomogeneous Plasma; 5.3 Collisional Absorption Including Oblique Incidence and a Density Dependent Collision Frequency; 5.4 Derivation of the Damping Coefficient |
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8.4 The Filamentation Instability9. Heating by Plasma Waves; 9.1 Collisional Damping; 9.2 Landau Damping; 9.3 Linear Theory Limitations -- Trapping; 9.4 Wavebreaking of Electron Plasma Waves; 9.5 Electron Heating by the Oscillating-Two-Stream and Ion Acoustic Decay Instabilities; 9.6 Plasma Wave CoUapse; 10. Density Profile Modification; 10.1 Freely Expanding Plasma; 10.2 Steepening of the Density Profile; 10.3 Resonance Absorption with Density Profile Modification; 11. Nonlinear Features of Underdense Plasma Instabilities; 11.1 Nonlinear features of Brillouin Scattering |
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11.2 Nonlinear Features of Raman Scattering11.3 Nonlinear Features of the Two-Plasmon Decay and Filamentation Instabilities; 12. Electron Energy Transport; 12.1 Electron Thermal Conductivity; 12.2 Multigroup Flux-Limited Diffusion; 12.3 Other Influences on Electron Heat Transport; 12.4 Heat Transport in Laser-Irradiated Targets; 13. Laser Plasma Experiments; 13.1 Density Profile Steepening; 13.2 Absorption of Intense, Short Pulse-Length Light; 13.3 Heated Electron Temperatures; 13.4 Brillouin Scattering; 13.5 Raman Scattering; 13.6 Other Plasma Processes |
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13.7 Wavelength Scaling of Laser Plasma Coupling |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000754209 |
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1000754200 |
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