Plasma Modeling: Methods and Applications

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

《等離子體建模：方法與應用》介紹並討論了可用於等離子體建模的不同方法，詳細介紹了理論和數值方法。書中描述了在等離子體研究中使用的動力學模型，發展了流體方程和混合模型的理論，並討論了在各個領域中的應用和實際問題。

這本更新的第二版新增了超過200頁的新內容，包括一個廣泛的新部分，討論了計算等離子體建模所需的數據的方法，例如熱力學和傳輸性質、重粒子碰撞的狀態特定速率係數和電子碰撞截面。這本更新的研究和參考書是一個優秀的資源，可協助和指導希望在等離子體物理領域開展研究活動的學生和研究人員選擇最佳模型來解決感興趣的問題。

主要特點：
- 全書更新至最新版
- 包含一個新部分，介紹計算等離子體建模所需數據的方法
- 詳細描述了數值方法
- 包含了各種模型的廣泛應用
- 各章由該領域的專家撰寫