Space Plasma Physics: A Review

Ii. Plasma Dynamics A. Plasma Physics

subject to the boundary conditions: U = Umax , at z = 0; and U 1, dU/dzo 0 as z -) oo. Here U = U/U ; U is the mean energy, 3/2 kT, of an electron; and Ue is the equilibrium energy to which the electron decays at an infinite distance z from the region of excitation. The dimensionless parameter z 0 is equal to pz, where p is the reciprocal of the free diffusion length in the radial direction of ...

Ground-Based Investigation of Near- Earth Space Plasma Processes in the NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber

Introduction: The NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber Laboratory conducts a broad-based research program addressing near-Earth space plasma physics. The unique Space Chamber device (shown in operation in Fig. 1) produces large-volume, steady-state, spacelike plasmas with conditions scaled to match various ionospheric and magnetospheric regions of interest. The program includes basic research i...

A Classical Physics Review for Nonclassical Physics

Final Examination Physics 8120 : Plasma Physics

This is an open book and notes take home examination and MUST be returned to me by 10:50AM on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007. Either hand it to me personally at the beginning of our last class, or leave it in a sealed envelope in my box in 700 One Park Place. If you have any questions, you should ask me, and no one else. Note that I will be out of town from 14 November through 25 November, but w...

A kinetic equation for linear fractional stable motion with applications to space plasma physics

Lévy flights and fractional Brownian motion (fBm) have become exemplars of the heavy tailed jumps and long-ranged memory seen in space physics and elsewhere. Natural time series frequently combine both effects, and Linear Fractional Stable Motion (LFSM) is a model process of this type, combining alpha-stable jumps with a memory kernel. In contrast complex physical spatiotemporal diffusion proce...