Laser Plasma Interactions 3: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, August 1985

This monograph, written by three of the most senior and internationally respected Japanese fusion scientists, presents a self-consistent picture of turbulent transport, structural formation and transitions-processes that are typical of re physics of many far from equilibrium systems such as exist in magnetically confined and inhomogeneous plasmas.The Authors view is that the plasma structure, fluctuations and turbulent transport are continually regulating each other and, in addition, that re structural formation and structural transition of plasmas are typical of the physics of far from equilibrium systems. The book presents and explains why the plasma inhonogenety is the ordering parameter governing transport and how self-sustained fluctuations can be driven through subcritical exotation even beyond linear stability. In addition, the authors derive the non-linear gradient-flux relation with the result that asymmetry arising from the fluctuations allows mixing of the various kinds of fluxes. This emphasses the ever important role that electromagnetic fields play in inducing long range couplings and bifurcations in To illustrate, aHooper, M. B. is the author of 'Laser Plasma Interactions 3: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, August 1985' with ISBN 9780905945125 and ISBN 0905945123.