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    COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA IN MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS
    Proceedings of the Workshop
    Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, 4 – 6 December 2006

    edited by G Bertin (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) , R Pozzoli (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) , M Romé (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) , & K R Sreenivasan (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)

    Table of Contents (41k)
    Preface (27k)
    Chapter 1: A Hypothesis of the Magnetostatic Turbulence and its Implications for Astrophysics (96k)

    The contributions in this volume discuss numerous hot topics of interdisciplinary interest in plasma physics, astrophysics, and fluid dynamics. It collects the articles presented at a Workshop that has gathered world experts with a broad spectrum of research interests.

     
    Contents:
    • A Hypothesis of the Magnetostatic Turbulence and Its Implications for Astrophysics (D D Ryutov & B A Remington)
    • Coherent Structures and Turbulence in Electron Plasmas (M Romé et al.)
    • Collective Processes at Kinetic Levels in Dusty Plasmas (P K Shukla & B Eliasson)
    • Theoretical Resolution of Magnetic Reconnection in High Energy Plasmas (B Coppi)
    • Stochastic Resonance: From Climate to Biology (R Benzi)
    • Poynting Jets and MHD Winds from Rapidly Rotating Magnetized Stars (R V E Lovelace et al.)
    • Turbulence and Transport in Astrophysical Accretion Disks (J M Stone)
    • Nonlocality of Collective Effects Related to Dynamical Friction in Elliptical Galaxies (S E Arena & G Bertin)
    • Structures of Charge Sheaths and Transition Layers in Ion Sources (M Cavenago)
    • and other papers
     
    Readership: Researchers in plasma physics, astrophysics and fluid dynamics.
     


     
    316pp    Pub. date: Aug 2007  
    ISBN:   978-981-270-705-5
    981-270-705-0
       US$104 / £63

     


    316pp    Pub. date: Aug 2007  
    ISBN:   978-981-277-890-1(ebook)
    981-277-890-X(ebook)
       US$137 / £81

     


     

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