TY - BOOK AU - Spatschek,Karl-Heinz TI - High temperature plasmas: theory and mathematical tools for laser and fusion plasmas SN - 9783527638130 AV - QC718.5.H5 S63 2012 U1 - 530.44 22 PY - 2012/// CY - Weinheim PB - Wiley-VCH KW - High temperature plasmas KW - Atoms KW - Plasma spectroscopy KW - SCIENCE KW - Energy KW - bisacsh KW - Mechanics KW - General KW - Physics KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-623) and index; Front Matter -- Introduction -- Single Particle Motion -- Plasma in Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- Kinetic Description of Nonequilibrium Plasmas -- Fluid Description -- Principles of Linear and Stochastic Transport -- Linear Waves and Instabilities -- General Theory of Nonlinear Waves and Solitons -- Nonlinear Wave Aspects in Laser₆Matter Interaction -- Appendix A: Units -- Appendix B: Fourier and Laplace Transforms for Pedestrians -- Appendix C: The Inverse Scattering Transform (IST) for Nonlinear Waves -- Appendix D: Lie Transform Techniques for Eliminating Fast Variations -- Appendix E: Choices of Low-Dimensional Basis Systems -- Appendix F: Center Manifold Theory -- Appendix G: Newell₆Whitehead Procedure -- Appendix H: Liapunov Stability -- Appendix I: Variational Principles -- Appendix J: Self-Adjointness of the Operator Appearing in Hydromagnetic Variational Principles -- References -- Index UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9783527638116 ER -