Plasma I

PHYS-423

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  • Unless specified, the chapters refer to Prof. Fasoli lecture notes, that you can find in the Bibliography section.
Date
Subject
Reference Complementary material
12-09-2024
Introduction, plasma definition and production, time and spatial scales Chapters 1,2
19-09-2024 Random walk, transport in weakly ionized plasma, charged particle collisions Ch.2 (p.12), Ch.5 (p.30-34), Ch.3 (p.13-17)
26-09-2024 Effect of multiple collisions, energy and momentum transfer Ch.3 (p.17-19), Ch.4 (p.20-26)
03-10-2024 Plasma resistivity, plasma waves - linearization, MHD model Ch.4 (p(26-29), Ch.5/6 (p34-41)
10-10-2024 Plasma waves: MHD waves, two fluid model Ch.6 (p 44-52)
17-10-2024 Waves in two fluid model Ch.6 (p.53-61)
31-10-2024 Kinetic model - derivation of the Vlasov equation
Ch.7 (p.66-70)
07-11-2024 Kinetic model - Conservation laws, from Vlasov equation to fluid equations Ch.7 (p.70-75)
14-11-2024 Vlasov-Poisson description of an unmagnetized plasma Ch 7 (p.76-80), Ch 8 (p.81-83)
21-11-2024 Wave-particle interaction - Landau's rule Ch.8(p.84-91)
28-11-2024 Wave-particle interaction - Landau damping Chapter 8 (p. 98-99) Landau_Damping
05-12-2024 Stability criteria - Vlasov treatment of plasma waves Chapters 8 (100-105)
12-12-2024  Kinetic theory of waves in hot magnetized plasmas  Ch 9 (p. 106-112)  
19-12-2024  Non-linear phenomena  Ch 10 Nicholson