Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Neutral fluids
- Part 2 Plasmas
- 10 Plasma orbit theory
- 11 Dynamics of many charged particles
- 12 Collisionless processes in plasmas
- 13 Collisional processes and the one-fluid model
- 14 Basic magnetohydrodynamics
- 15 Theory of magnetic topologies
- 16 Dynamo theory
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Useful vector relations
- Appendix B Integrals in kinetic theory
- Appendix C Formulae and equations in cylindrical and spherical coordinates
- Appendix D Values of various quantities
- Appendix E Basic parameters pertaining to plasmas
- Suggestions for further reading
- References
- Index
13 - Collisional processes and the one-fluid model
from Part 2 - Plasmas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Neutral fluids
- Part 2 Plasmas
- 10 Plasma orbit theory
- 11 Dynamics of many charged particles
- 12 Collisionless processes in plasmas
- 13 Collisional processes and the one-fluid model
- 14 Basic magnetohydrodynamics
- 15 Theory of magnetic topologies
- 16 Dynamo theory
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Useful vector relations
- Appendix B Integrals in kinetic theory
- Appendix C Formulae and equations in cylindrical and spherical coordinates
- Appendix D Values of various quantities
- Appendix E Basic parameters pertaining to plasmas
- Suggestions for further reading
- References
- Index
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- The Physics of Fluids and PlasmasAn Introduction for Astrophysicists, pp. 258 - 275Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998