Plasma physics and engineering. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Alexander Fridman.
• Other Names: Fridman, Alexander A, 1953-
• Contents: Part I: Fundamentals of Plasma Physics and Plasma Chemistry; Plasma in Nature, in the Laboratory, and in Industry ; Occurrence of Plasma: Natural and Man Made; Gas Discharges; Plasma Applications, Plasmas in Industry; Plasma Applications for Environmental Control; Plasma Applications in Energy Conversion; Plasma Application for Material Processing; Breakthrough Plasma Applications in Modern Technology; ; Elementary Processes of Charged Species in Plasma ; Elementary Charged Particles in Plasma and Their Elastic and Inelastic Collisions; Ionization Processes; Mechanisms of Electron Losses: The Electron–Ion Recombination; Electron Losses Due to Formation of Negative Ions: Electron Attachment and Detachment Processes; Ion–Ion Recombination Processes; The Ion–Molecular Reactions; ; Elementary Processes of Excited Molecules and Atoms in Plasma ; Electronically Excited Atoms and Molecules in Plasma; Vibrationally and Rotationally Excited Molecules; Elementary Processes of Vibrational, Rotational, and Electronic Excitation of Molecules in Plasma; Vibration (VT) Relaxation, Landau–Teller Formula; Vibrational Energy Transfer between Molecules, VV-Relaxation Processes; Processes of Rotational and Electronic Relaxation of Excited Molecules; Elementary Chemical Reactions of Excited Molecules: Fridman–Macheret α-Model; ; Plasma Statistics and Kinetics of Charged Particles ; Statistics and Thermodynamics of Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Plasmas, The Boltzmann, Saha, and Treanor Distributions; The Boltzmann and Fokker–Planck Kinetic Equations: Electron Energy Distribution Functions; Electric and Thermal Conductivity in Plasma: Diffusion of Charged Particles; Breakdown Phenomena: The Townsend and Spark Mechanisms, Avalanches, Streamers and Leaders; Steady-State Regimes of Nonequilibrium Electric Discharges; ; Kinetics of Excited Particles in Plasma ; Vibrational Distribution Functions in Nonequilibrium Plasma: The Fokker–Planck Kinetic Equation; Nonequilibrium Vibrational Kinetics: eV-Processes, Polyatomic Molecules, Non-Steady-State Regimes; Macrokinetics of Chemical Reactions and Relaxation of Vibrationally Excited Molecules; Vibrational Kinetics in Gas Mixtures, Isotropic Effect in Plasma Chemistry; Kinetics of Electronically and Rotationally Excited States, Nonequilibrium Translational Distributions, Relaxation and Reactions of "Hot Atoms" in Plasma; Energy Efficiency, Energy Balance, and Macrokinetics of Plasma-Chemical Processes; Energy Efficiency of Quasi-Equilibrium Plasma-Chemical Systems: Absolute, Ideal, and Super-Ideal Quenching; Surface Reactions of Plasma-Excited Molecules in Chemistry, Metallurgy, and Bio-Medicine; ; Electrostatics, Electrodynamics, and Fluid Mechanics of Plasma ; Electrostatic Plasma Phenomena: Debye-Radius and Sheaths, Plasma Oscillations and Plasma Frequency; Magneto-Hydrodynamics of Plasma; Instabilities of Low Temperature Plasma; Nonthermal Plasma Fluid Mechanics in Fast Subsonic and Supersonic Flows; Electrostatic, Magneto-Hydrodynamic and Acoustic Waves in Plasma; Propagation of Electro-Magnetic Waves in Plasma; Emission and Absorption of Radiation in Plasma, Continuous Spectrum; Spectral Line Radiation in Plasma; Nonlinear Phenomena in Plasma; Part II: Physics and Engineering of Electric Discharges ; Glow Discharge ; Structure and Physical Parameters of Glow Discharge Plasma, Current–Voltage Characteristics: Comparison of Glow and Dark Discharges; Cathode and Anode Layers of a Glow Discharge; Positive Column of Glow Discharge; Glow Discharge Instabilities; Different Specific Glow Discharge Plasma Sources; ; Arc Discharges ; Physical Features, Types, Parameters, and Current–Voltage; Characteristics of Arc Discharges; Mechanisms of Electron Emission from Cathode; Cathode and Anode Layers in Arc Discharges; Positive Column of Arc Discharges; Different Configurations of Arc Discharges; Gliding Arc Discharge; ; Nonequilibrium Cold Atmospheric Pressure Discharges ; Continuous Corona Discharge; The Pulsed Corona Discharge; Dielectric-Barrier Discharge; Spark Discharges; Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharges; Microdisharges; ; Plasma Created in High Frequency Electromagnetic Fields: Radio-Frequency, Microwave, and Optical Discharges ; Radio Fequency Discharges at High Pressures, Inductively Coupled Thermal RF Discharges; Thermal Plasma Generation in Microwave and Optical Discharges; Nonequilibrium RF Discharges, General Features of Nonthermal CCP Discharges; Nonthermal CCP Discharges of Moderate Pressure; Low Pressure CCP RF Discharges; Asymmetric, Magnetron and Other Special Forms of Low Pressure Capacitive RF Discharges; Nonthermal ICP Discharges; Nonthermal Low-Pressure Microwave and Other Wave-Heated Discharges; Nonequilibrium Microwave Discharges of Moderate Pressure; ; Discharges in Aerosols, Dusty Plasmas, and Liquids ; Photoionization of Aerosols; Thermal Ionization of Aerosols; Electric Breakdown of Aerosols; Steady-State DC Electric Discharge in Heterogeneous Medium; Dusty Plasma Formation: Evolution of Nanoparticles in Plasma; Critical Phenomena in Dusty Plasma Kinetics; Nonequilibrium Clusterization in Centrifugal Field; Dusty Plasma Structures: Phase Transitions, Coulomb Crystals, Special Oscillations; Discharges in Liquids; ; Electron Beam Plasmas ; Generation and Properties of Electron Beam Plasmas; Kinetics of Degradation Processes, Degradation Spectrum; Plasma-Beam Discharge; Nonequilibrium High-Pressure Discharges Sustained by High-Energy Electron Beams; Plasma in Tracks of Nuclear Fission Fragments, Plasma Radiolysis; Dusty Plasma Generation by a Relativistic Electron Beam;
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (941 pages), (331 illustrations)
• Subjects: 530.44; Plasma (Ionized gases); Plasma engineering
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439884812; 1439884811
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