Book Description:
This series includes within its scope equilibria, linear waves, and instabilities; nonlinear behavior, including turbulent and stochastic phenomena and associated transport, and solitons and shock waves. It also includes plasma physics of lasers and particle beams and charged-particle acceleration and transport as well as radiation generation, transport, propagation, and interaction with plasmas. Low-temperature plasmas, including sources. plasma chemistry and processing and covered as are geophysical, planetary, solar, and astrophysical plasmas and plasma confinement by magnetic fields. Inertial confinement physics, the physics of dense plasmas or matter under extreme conditions and dusty plasmas are further subsumed. This volumes includes the latest research from around the globe.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Short Commentary

Radio-Frequency Wave Dissipation by Electron Landau Damping in Tokamaks with Elliptic and Circular Magnetic Surfaces; pp. 1-15
(N.I. Grishanov, Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Brasil, J. Pereira Neto, Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Brasil, Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, C.A. de Azevedo, Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)

Research and Review Studies

Chapter 1 - Review of Analytical Treatments of Barrier-Type Problems in Plasma Theory; pp. 17-79
(F. Spineanu, M. Vlad, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan, Association EURATOM-MECT Romania, K. Itoh, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan)

Chapter 2 - Interaction of Ion beams with Plasmas: Energy Loss and Equipartition Sum Rules; pp. 81-125
(Hrachya Nersisyan, Institute of Radiophysics & Electronics, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Ashtarak, Armenia, Amal K. Das, Halifax, Canada)

Chapter 3 - Dephasing in Rydberg Plasmas; pp. 127-142
(C. Gocke, G. R"opke, Univ. of Rostock, Institut f"ur Physik, Univ. "atsplatz, Germany)

Chapter 4 - Quasi-Linear Properties of the Bigskip; pp. 143-162
(Einstein''Gauss-Bonnet" field equations, Nathalie Deruelle, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Index