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Plasma modeling : methods and applications / edited by Gianpiero Colonna, Antonio D'Angola.

Contributor(s): Colonna, Gianpiero [editor.] | D'Angola, Antonio [editor.] | Institute of Physics (Great Britain) [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: IOP (Series)Release 22: ; IOP series in plasma physics: ; IOP ebooks2022 collection: Publisher: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]Edition: Second edition.Description: 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780750335591; 9780750335584.Subject(s): Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Mathematical models | Space plasmas -- Mathematical models | Plasma physics | SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & MolecularAdditional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 530.4/4 Online resources: Click here to access online Also available in print.
Contents:
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 ergodic method : plasma dynamics through a sequence of equilibrium states / Gianni Coppa, Luis O. Silva, Antonio D'Angola, Fabio Peano and Federico Peinetti
part II. Fluid and hybrid models. 6. Fluid models for collisionless magnetic reconnection / Daniela Grasso and Dario Borgogno -- 7. Magnetohydrodynamics equations / Andrea Cristofolini -- 8. Drift-diffusion models and methods / Bernard Parent -- 9. Self-consistent kinetics / Gianpiero Colonna, Mario Capitelli and Lucia Daniela Pietanza -- 10. Hypersonic flows with detailed state-to-state kinetics using a GPU cluster / Giuseppe Pascazio, Davide Ninni, Francesco Bonelli and Gianpiero Colonna -- 11. Hybrid models / Francesco Taccogna and Pierpaolo Minelli
part III. Applications. 12. On the coupling of vibrational and electronic kinetics with the electron energy distribution functions : past and present / Mario Capitelli -- 13. Atmospheric pressure plasmas operating in high frequency fields / Marco A. Ridenti, Vasco Guerra and Jayr Amorim -- 14. Direct current microarcs at atmospheric pressure / Margarita Baeva and Markus M. Becker -- 15. Multiscale phenomenona in a self-organized plasma jet / Florian Sigeneger -- 16. High-enthalpy radiating flows in aerophysics / Sergey T. Surzhikov -- 17. Simulating plasma aerodynamics / Jonathan Poggie -- 18. Dust-plasma interaction : a review of dust charging theory and simulation / Gian Luca Delzanno and Xian-Zhu Tang -- 19. Magnetic confinement for thermonuclear energy production / Enzo Lazzaro -- 20. Verification and validation in plasma physics / Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Ambrogio Fasoli, Fabio Riva and Christian Theiler
part IV. Data for plasma modelling. 21. Thermodynamic and transport properties of complex plasmas / Gianpiero Colonna, Antonio D'Angola and Annarita Laricchiuta -- 22. Methods for electron-molecule scattering / Roberto Celiberto, Jimena D Gorfinkiel, Annarita Laricchiuta and Jonathan Tennyson -- 23. Rate coefficients for energy transfer and chemical reactions in heavy particle collisions / Igor V. Adamovich, Fabrizio Esposito and Sergey O. Macheret.
Abstract: Plasma Modeling: Methods and applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling, giving details about theoretical and numerical methods.
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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 ergodic method : plasma dynamics through a sequence of equilibrium states / Gianni Coppa, Luis O. Silva, Antonio D'Angola, Fabio Peano and Federico Peinetti

part II. Fluid and hybrid models. 6. Fluid models for collisionless magnetic reconnection / Daniela Grasso and Dario Borgogno -- 7. Magnetohydrodynamics equations / Andrea Cristofolini -- 8. Drift-diffusion models and methods / Bernard Parent -- 9. Self-consistent kinetics / Gianpiero Colonna, Mario Capitelli and Lucia Daniela Pietanza -- 10. Hypersonic flows with detailed state-to-state kinetics using a GPU cluster / Giuseppe Pascazio, Davide Ninni, Francesco Bonelli and Gianpiero Colonna -- 11. Hybrid models / Francesco Taccogna and Pierpaolo Minelli

part III. Applications. 12. On the coupling of vibrational and electronic kinetics with the electron energy distribution functions : past and present / Mario Capitelli -- 13. Atmospheric pressure plasmas operating in high frequency fields / Marco A. Ridenti, Vasco Guerra and Jayr Amorim -- 14. Direct current microarcs at atmospheric pressure / Margarita Baeva and Markus M. Becker -- 15. Multiscale phenomenona in a self-organized plasma jet / Florian Sigeneger -- 16. High-enthalpy radiating flows in aerophysics / Sergey T. Surzhikov -- 17. Simulating plasma aerodynamics / Jonathan Poggie -- 18. Dust-plasma interaction : a review of dust charging theory and simulation / Gian Luca Delzanno and Xian-Zhu Tang -- 19. Magnetic confinement for thermonuclear energy production / Enzo Lazzaro -- 20. Verification and validation in plasma physics / Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Ambrogio Fasoli, Fabio Riva and Christian Theiler

part IV. Data for plasma modelling. 21. Thermodynamic and transport properties of complex plasmas / Gianpiero Colonna, Antonio D'Angola and Annarita Laricchiuta -- 22. Methods for electron-molecule scattering / Roberto Celiberto, Jimena D Gorfinkiel, Annarita Laricchiuta and Jonathan Tennyson -- 23. Rate coefficients for energy transfer and chemical reactions in heavy particle collisions / Igor V. Adamovich, Fabrizio Esposito and Sergey O. Macheret.

Plasma Modeling: Methods and applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling, giving details about theoretical and numerical methods.

Students and researchers starting a project and research activity on plasma modeling, helping in the choice of the adequate method and in the development of codes.

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Gianpiero Colonna is Research Director in the Institute for Plasma Science and Technology at the National Research Council (CNR), Bari, Italy. Antonio D'Angola is Associate Professor at the University of Basilicata in Italy and Associate Researcher at Institute for Plasma Science and Technology at the National Research Council (CNR), Bari, Italy.

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