Complexity and simplicity of plasmas

被引:1
作者
Escande, D. F. [1 ]
机构
[1] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Fac St Jerome, UMR 7345, FR-13397 Marseille 20, France
来源
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX PROCESSES IN PLASMAS AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS | 2014年 / 1582卷
关键词
plasmas; microscopic dynamics; Debye shielding; Landau damping; collisional transport; complexity;
D O I
10.1063/1.4865342
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
This paper has two main parts. The first one presents a direct path from microscopic dynamics to Debye screening, Landau damping and collisional transport. It shows there is more simplicity in microscopic plasma physics than previously thought. The second part is more subjective. It describes some difficulties in facing plasma complexity in general, suggests an inquiry about the methods used empirically to tackle complex systems, discusses the teaching of plasma physics as a physics of complexity, and proposes new directions to face the inflation of information.
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页数:13
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