A primer on complex systems: with applications to astrophysical and laboratory plasmas
General Material Designation
[electronic resources]
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Raul Sanchez, David Newman.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Madrid, Spain
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xx, 397 pages.
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: illustrations (some color).
SERIES
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Lecture notes in physics, 943.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The purpose of this book is to illustrate the fundamental concepts of complexity and complex behavior and the best methods to characterize this behavior by means of their applications to some current research topics from within the fields of fusion, earth and solar plasmas. In this sense, it is a departure from the many books already available that discuss general features of complexity. The book is divided in two parts. In the first part the most important properties and features of complex systems are introduced, discussed and illustrated. The second part discusses several instances of possible complex phenomena in magnetized plasmas and some of the analysis tools that were introduced in the first part are used to characterize the dynamics in these systems. A list of problems is proposed at the end of each chapter. This book is intended for graduate and post-graduate students with a solid college background in mathematics and classical physics, who intend to work in the field of plasma physics and, in particular, plasma turbulence. It will also be of interest to senior scientists who have so far approached these systems and problems from a different perspective and want a new fresh angle.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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فیزیک
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Physics
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نظریه سیستمها
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System theory
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گداخت هستهای
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Nuclear fusion
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پلاسما (گازهای یونیزه)
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Plasma (Ionizedgases)
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فیزیک پلاسما
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Plasma Physics
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UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
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Physics, System theory, Nuclear fusion, Plasma, Plasma Physics.