High temperature plasmas : theory and mathematical tools for laser and fusion plasmas / Karl-Heinz Spatschek.

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.

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