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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450952503321

Titolo

Proceedings of the workshop Collective Phenomena in Macroscopic Systems, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, 4 - 6 December 2006 [[electronic resource] /] / editors, G. Bertin ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-93788-6

9786611937881

981-277-890-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BertinG (Giuseppe)

Disciplina

530.4/4

Soggetti

Plasma (Ionized gases) - Mathematics

Astrophysics - Mathematics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

At head of t.p.: Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; CONTENTS; A Hypothesis of the Magnetostatic Turbulence and its Implications for Astrophysics D. D. Ryutov and B. A. Remington; 1. Introduction; 2. Existence of magnetostatic turbulence; 3. Possible mechanisms generating magnetostatic turbulence; 4. Dissipation of the magnetostatic turbulence; 5. Large-scale motions on the background of the magnetostatic turbulence; 6. Discussion; References; Coherent Structures and Turbulence in Electron Plasmas M. Rom e, G. Bettega, F. Cavaliere, F. de Luca, A. Illiberi and R. Pozzoli; 1. Introduction; 2. Trapped plasma

3. Beam reflected by a potential barrier3.1. Experimental results; 3.2. Numerical simulations; 4. Conclusions; References; Self-Organization of Non-Linear Vortices in Plasma Lens for Ion-Beam-Focusing in Crossed Radial Electrical and Longitudinal Magnetic Fields V. Maslov, I. Onishchenko and A. Goncharov; 1. Introduction; 2. Joint Development of Two Instabilities; 3. Spatial Structure of Vortexes; 4. Nonlinear Dynamics of Vortices; References; Collective Processes at Kinetic Levels in Dusty Plasmas P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson; 1. Introduction; 2. Dust ion-acoustic waves



3. Experimental observations of DIA shocks4. Langmuir envelope solitons; 5. Surface dust vortices and zonal flows; 6. Summary; Acknowledgment; References; Magnetic Field Generation in Anisotropic Relativistic Plasma Regimes F. Pegoraro, F. Califano and D. del Sarto; 1. Magnetic  fields in plasmas; 2. Laboratory relativistic plasmas; 3. Linear dispersion relation; 4. 3-D structure of the magnetic  eld generated by two inhomogeneous counterstreaming beams; 5. Conclusions; References

Generation and Observation of Coherent, Long-Lived Structures in a Laser-Plasma Channel T. V. Liseykina, F. Ceccherini, F. Cornolti, E. Yu. Echkina, A. Macchi, F. Pegoraro, M. Borghesi, S. Kar, L. Romagnani, S. V. Bulanov, O. Willi and W. Galimberti1. Introduction; 2. Experimental setup and simulation approach; 3. Channeling in underdense plasma; 4. Structure formation; 5. Conclusion; 6. Acknowledgments; References; Theoretical Resolution of Magnetic Reconnection in High Energy Plasmas B. Coppi; 1. Introduction; 2. Micro-reconnecting Modes and Their Role

3. Mesoscopic Mode and Relevant Electron Thermal Energy Balance Equation4. Electron and Total Momentum Conservation Equations; 5. Innermost Asymptotic Region Acknowledgments; 6. Solution for the Innermost Region; 7. Asymptotic Matching and Growth Rates; 8. Relevant Comments; Acknowledgments; References; The Power of Being Flat: Conformal Invariance in Two-Dimensional Turbulence A. Celani; References; Stochastic Resonance: From Climate to Biology R. Benzi; 1. The mechanism of stochastic resonance in climate theory; 2. Stochastic resonance in complex systems; 3. Conclusions; References

Energy-Enstrophy Theory for Coupled Fluid/Rotating Sphere System{Exact Solutions for Super-Rotations C. C. Lim

Sommario/riassunto

The contributions in this volume discuss numerous hot topics of interdisciplinary interest in plasma physics, astrophysics, and fluid dynamics. It collects the articles presented at a Workshop that has gathered world experts with a broad spectrum of research interests.