Introduction
We would like to call your attention to a Special Issue of Journal of Plasma Physics edited by Francesco Califano (University of Pisa) and Massimiliano Romè (University of Milan) entitled: Complex Plasma Phenomena in the Laboratory and in the Universe
Special Issue Editors
Editor:
Francesco Califano
Guest Editor:
Massimiliano Romè
The development of new experiments, of more powerful instrumentation operating from the ground and from space, and of increasingly more efficient computer facilities is leading to new exciting results in the physics of both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.
The science communities behind these results often work separately, within extremely specialized contexts. Major laboratories and observatories are often devoted to one set of objectives, and scientists may lose track of the overall perspective. On the other hand, several hot topics of the current research demonstrate that the different communities and objectives actually have deep roots in common.
Therefore, it is important that the communities involved interact with one another on the progress made. This was the motivation of the International Workshop “Complex Plasma Phenomena in the Laboratory and in the Universe”, at the basis of this topical issue. The workshop was held at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, in Roma (Italy), from January 19 to January 20, 2015. It followed a tradition established by a series of Symposia held in Como (Italy) over the last dozen years (2003 “Plasmas in the Laboratory and in the Universe: new insights and new challenges”; 2006 “Collective phenomena in macroscopic systems”; 2009 “Plasmas in the Laboratory and in the Universe: interactions, patterns, and turbulence”), devoted to an interdisciplinary study of collective phenomena in macroscopic systems.
The focus of this special issue of JPP is on a number of topics that exhibit an interdisciplinary character: turbulence, magnetic fields, disk – jet connection; mechanisms for angular momentum transport in accretion disks; complex, dusty, and non-neutral plasmas; turbulence in laboratory and space plasmas; coherent and self-organized structures; plasma – wave interactions and instabilities; high-energy plasmas; nonlinear behaviour of thermonuclear plasmas; antimatter plasmas; fundamental issues in the theoretical description of plasmas and in computational plasma physics.
This special issue of Journal of Plasma Physics aims at providing a panoramic view of the state of the art on the subject of complex plasma phenomena, by collecting relevant contributions from a wide range of different approaches in plasma physics and astrophysics, including observations, experiments, theory, and numerical modelling.
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