Child-Langmuir space charge limited
emission, 29
CMA diagram, 188
coalescence
mode, 240
coalescence, mode, 212
cold plasma wave energy equation,
221
collimation, 294
collision
frequencies, 14
relations between cross-section,
mean-free-path, 27
collisions
and quasi-linear diffusion, 426
Coulomb, 11
Fokker-Planck model, 389
qualitative treatment in Vlasov
equation, 34
with neutrals, 16
condensation
of dusty plasma, 495
confinement time, 296
constant of the motion
definition of, 64
convective derivative
definition of, 38
coronal loop, 295
correspondence of drift equations
with MHD, 91
coupled oscillator, 442
cross-section
effective, for dust grain charging,
484
fusion, 297
neutral, 17
small-angle scattering, 13
crystallization, 495
crystallization criterion, dusty
plasma, 501
current
curvature, 93
diamagnetic, 91, 250
force-free in Grad-Shafranov
equation, 281
grad B, 93
parallel, 268
polarization, 93
poloidal, 280
sheet, 362
sheet, in Sweet-Parker reconnec-
tion, 380
toroidal, 280
curvature
good v. bad, 305, 318
magnetic field, 271
curvature current, 93
curvature drift, 80
curved magnetic field, 79
cusp field, 103
cutoff, 131, 185, 190
cyclotron motion
sense of rotation, 29daughter wave, 429
Debye shielding, 129
derivation of, 7
solution of pde for, 24
decay instability, 428, 438
delta W
in MHD energy principle, 313
destructive interference, 202
deuterium, 296
diamagnetic, 282
current, 91
drift velocity, 250
dielectric constant, 95
dielectric tensor, 179
dielectric tensor elements, 181
right, left hand polarization, 183
diffusion
ambipolar, 18
magnetic, 364
quasi-linear velocity space, 405
diocotron mode, 465
resistive wall, image charge
method, 479
distribution function
definition of, 31
for collisionless drift wave, 260
moments of, 33529