Waves and Oscillations in Plasmas

Hans Pécseli is professor emeritus at the plasma-space physics department at the University of Oslo, and also adjoined professor at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He has contributed to the literature on plasma physics, meteorology, and lately also marine biology. He is member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, and also fellow of the American Physical Society. With a basic education in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and a PhD from the Risø National Laboratory in Denmark, Professor Pécseli has a background from laboratory experiments in plasma physics, working at the same time also with theoretical problems in this field.

• 1 Introduction. 2 Basics of Continuum Models. 3 Linear Wave Dynamics. 4 Weakly Nonlinear Waves. 5 Basics of Electromagnetism. 6 Plasmas found in Nature 7 Single Particle Motion. 8 Basic Plasma Parameters. 9 Experimental Devices. 10 Magneto-Hydrodynamics by Brute Force.11 Plasma as a Mixture of Charged Gases. 12 Waves in Cold Plasmas. 13 Electrostatic Waves in Warm Homogeneous and Isotropic Plasmas. 14 Fluid Models for Nonlinear Electrostatic Waves: Isotropic Case. 15 Small Amplitude Waves in Anisotropic Warm Plasmas. 16 Fluid Models for Nonlinear Electrostatic Waves: Magnetized Case. 17 Linear Drift Waves. 18 Weakly Nonlinear Electrostatic Drift Waves. 19 Kinetic Plasma Theory. 20 Kinetic Description of Electron Plasma Waves. 21 Kinetic Plasma Sound Waves. 22 Nonlinear Kinetic Equilibria. 23 Nonlinear Landau Damping. 24 Quasi-linear Theory