Class Id: 8032
Days: TTh
Start Time: 09:00 AM
End Time: 10:20 AM
Building: JADWH
Room: A07
Course Id: 3566
Departments and Numbers: AST 554
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Title: Irreversible Processes in Plasmas
Description: Introduction to theory of fluctuations and transport in plasma. Origins of irreversibility. Random walks, Brownian motion, and diffusion; Langevin and Fokker-Planck theory. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem; test-particle superposition principle. Statistical closure problem. Derivation of kinetic equations from BBGKY hierarchy and Klimontovich formalism; properties of plasma collision operators. Classical transport coefficients in magnetized plasmas; Onsager symmetry. Introduction to plasma turbulence, including quasilinear theory. Applications to current problems in plasma research.
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Professors: Gregory W. Hammett
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