IOP Series in Plasma Physics – serie

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. The book is intended 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. The book is organised in three parts. The first describes kinetic models used in plasma investigations, consisting of the solution of the Boltzmann equation using different approaches. The second part develops the theory of fluid equations and of hybrid models, and the third part is devoted to applications, considering some practical problems of interest in different fields.

This book comprehensively describes the phenomena that occurin liquid dielectrics under the influence of an inhomogeneous pulsed electricfield. Written by leading experts in the field, it is the first of its kind toaddress numerous potential applications such as the technology of high-voltageinsulation in pulsed inhomogeneous fields, and applications related tocavitation development in liquid dielectrics, plasma treatment of differentmaterials and plasma medicine dealing with living cells. Liquid Dielectrics in an InhomogeneousPulsed Electric Fieldis intended for a broad audience, from students to engineers and scientists,who are interested in current research questions in electrodynamics andhydrodynamics of liquid dielectrics.