Grand challenges in low-temperature plasma physics

Grand challenges in low-temperature plasma physics

INTRODUCTION A plasma is a hot ionized gas and classification of this fourth state of matter can be initially done using the basic concept of temperature. A prime example is the Sun which exhibits a very hot plasma in its core with temperatures of about 1.5 × 107 K (a result of fusion reactions with a proton density of ∼1026 cm−3) and cooler surface temperatures of about 6000 K [1]: the Solar w...

Grand challenges in interdisciplinary physics

The dictionary definition of physics is the study of matter, energy, and the interaction between them1. There is no doubt that this definition does describe the core of physics. However, over the last three decades, a shift has occured. Physics has spilled over its boundaries set by the definition quoted, and we now have fields such as econophysics, sociophysics, biological physics, and geologi...

Grand challenges in computational physics

Grand challenges in mathematical physics

It is no easy task to write in a few lines a comprehensible list of Grand Challenges in the Frontiers of Mathematical Physics. This is such an extensive discipline, comprising at the very least (and nonexclusively, of course): the mathematical formulation of classical mechanics, relevant mathematical aspects of statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, acoustics, thermodynamics, classical and quant...

Grand challenges in computational physics