Plasma Modeling (Second Edition)

Methods and applications

Contributions by Detlef Loffhagen, Giovanni Lapenta, Gianni Coppa, Luis Silva, Fabio Peano, Federico Peinetti, Daniela Grasso, Dario Borgogno, Andrea Cristofolini, Bernard Parent, Mario Capitelli, Lucia Daniela Pietanza, Giuseppe Pascazio, Davide Ninni, Francesco Bonelli, Francesco Taccogna, Pierpaolo Minelli, Mario Capitelli, Marco Ridenti, Vasco Guerra, Jayr Amorim, Margarita Baeva, Markus Becker, Florian Sigeneger, Sergey Surzhikov, Jonathan Poggie, Gian Luca Delzanno, Xianzhu Tang, Enzo Lazzaro, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Ambrogio Fasoli, Fabio Riva, Christian Theiler, Annarita Laricchiuta, Roberto Celiberto, Jimena Gorfinkiel, Annarita Laricchiuta, Jonathan Tennyson, Igor Adamovich, Fabrizio Esposito, Sergey Macheret Edited by Gianpiero Colonna, Antonio D'Angola

Publication date:

01 November 2022

Length of book:

724 pages

Publisher

Institute Of Physics Publishing

Dimensions:

254x178mm
7x10"

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. It describes kinetic models used in plasma investigations, develops the theory of fluid equations and hybrid models, and discusses applications and practical problems across a range of fields.

This updated second edition contains over 200 pages of new material, including an extensive new part that discusses methods to calculate data needed in plasma modeling, such as thermodynamic and transport properties, state specific rate coefficients in heavy particle collisions and electron impact cross sections. This updated research and reference text is an excellent resource to assist and direct students and researchers who want to develop research activity in the field of plasma physics in the choice of the best model for the problem of interest.

Key Features:

New edition updated throughout

Contains a new part covering methods to calculate data needed in plasma modelling

Contains detailed descriptions of numerical methods

Includes a wide variety of applications of the models

Chapters written by experts in the field

I Kinetic Theory
1 Boltzmann and Vlasov Equations
2 Two-term Boltzmann Equation
3 Multiterm and non-local Boltzmann equation
4 Particle-based simulation
5 The ergodic method

II Fluid and Hybrid Models
6 Fluid models for collisionless magnetic reconnection
7 Magneto Hydro Dynamics Equations
8 Drift-Diffusion Models and Methods
9 Self-Consistent Kinetics
10 Hypersonic flows with detailed State-to-State kinetics using a GPU cluster
11 Hybrid Models

III Applications
12 On the coupling of vibrational and electronic kinetics with the electron energy distribution functions: past and present
13 Atmospheric pressure plasmas in H. F.
14 Direct current microarcs at atmospheric pressure
15 Multiscale phenomena in a self-organized plasma jet
16 High Enthalpy Radiating Flows in Aerophysics
17 Simulating Plasma Aerodynamics
18 Dust-Plasma Interaction: a review of dust charging theory and simulation
19 Magnetic Confinement for Thermonuclear Energy Production
20 Verification and Validation in plasma physics

IV Data for Plasma Modeling
21 Thermodynamics and Transport Properties
22 Methods for Electron-Molecule Scattering
23 Rate Coefficients in Heavy Particle Collisions