"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Classification of gas discharges -- 1.3. Summarypart I. Ionization -- 2. Foundations from gas dynamics -- 2.1. The atom, the molecule, and excited states -- 2.2. The statistics of a gas -- 2.3. Kinet…
"Version: 20251001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Introduction to surfaces and interfaces -- 2.1. Surfaces and interfaces -- 2.2. Solid surfaces -- 2.3. Liquid surfaces3. Introduction to plasma surface interactions -- 3.1. Plasma at atmospheric pressure -- 3.2. Plasma components at interfaces -- 3.3. Surface kinetics4. Plasma-solid interactions -- 4…
"Version: 20190102"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fusion energy : concepts and prospects -- 1.1. Nuclear fusion and Lawson's criterion -- 1.2. Magnetic confinement -- 1.3. Inertial confinement2. Ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations and multi-parallel-fluid MHD theory -- 2.1. Moment…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Plasmas in space and in the laboratory -- 1.1. Plasmas in nature and in the laboratory -- 1.2. Solar plasmas -- 1.3. The Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere -- 1.4. Plasma physics and space technology -- 1.5. Commentaries and further re…
"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to the physical models for plasmas -- 2. Elements of plasma kinetic theory -- 2.1. The Boltzmann equation -- 2.2. Relaxation model for molecular collisions -- 2.3. The Boltzmann collision integral -- 2.4. Commentaries and further reading3. Hydrodynamic description of plasmas -- 3.1. The moments of Boltzman…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Kinetic theory. 1. Boltzmann and Vlasov equations in plasma physics / Gianpiero Colonna -- 2. Two-term Boltzmann equation / Gianpiero Colonna and Antonio D'Angola -- 3. Multiterm and non-local electron Boltzmann equation / Detlef Loffhagen -- 4. Particle-based simulation of plasmas / Giovanni Lapenta -- 5. The erg…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Principle of the fluid description of magnetically confined plasmas -- 1.1. Framework of conventional fluid theory -- 1.2. Fluid description of magnetically confined plasmaspart II. Fluid theory in the collision-dominant regime. 2. Braginskii two-fluid theory -- 2.1. Transport equations -- 2.2. Es…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part IV. Concluding remarks. 11. The beauty and simplicity in controlled fusion research -- Appendix A. Table of integrals and vector formula -- Appendix B. Supplementary derivation of drift kinetic equation -- Appendix C. Acronym list.part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Background for controlled thermonuclear f…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.7. Transport equations for gas discharges -- 7.1. Equations for the charged particles -- 7.2. The drift-diffusion approximation -- 7.3. Summarypart III. Gas discharges and plasmas. 8. Discharge initiation and plasma formation -- 8.1. Townsend behavior below the breakdown threshold -- 8.2. Pressure times distance and reduc…
"Version: 202306"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Thermonuclear fusion -- 1.3. Nuclear fusion reactions -- 1.4. The Lawson criterion -- 1.5. Fusion plasma parameters -- 1.6. Particle balance -- 1.7. Energy balance -- 1.8. Linear pinches -- 1.9. Toroidal pinches -- 1.10. Tokamaks -- 1.11. Tearing modes -- 1.12. Tearing mode rotat…