Dusty and Dirty Plasmas, Noise, and Chaos in Space and in the Laboratory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • H. Kikuchi

      Pages 1-5

3. Cosmic Dusty Plasmas

   1. Cosmic Dusty Plasmas: Some Recent Results

      • D. A. Mendis, M. Rosenberg, V. W. Chow

      Pages 7-21

   2. Parametric Excitation of the Low-Frequency Oscillations in the Dusty Plasma of Planetary Rings

      • Pavel V. Bliokh, Victoria V. Yaroshenko

      Pages 23-28

   3. Spokes in the Saturn’s Ring as Solitons in Dusty Plasma

      • P. V. Bliokh, S. I. Khankina, V. V. Yaroshenko

      Pages 29-32

   4. Effects of the Charged Dust in a High-Energy Electron Beam

      • Masanobu Niimura, Hiroshi Amemiya

      Pages 33-54

   5. Plasma Tail and Dust Tail of Comets

      • Takao Saito, Yukio Kozuka, Keiji Saito, Shigeyuki Minami

      Pages 55-71

   6. CRRES Plasma Wave Observations during Quiet Times, during Geomagnetic Disturbances, and during Chemical Releases

      • Roger R. Anderson

      Pages 73-95

4. Laboratory Dusty Plasmas: Theory and Experiment

   1. Coherent Structures in Low-Temperature Dusty Plasmas

      • P. K. Shukla, N. N. Rao

      Pages 97-109

   2. Electron-Free Plasma

      • H. Amemiya

      Pages 111-121

   3. Measurement of Electric Charge of Dust in a Plasma

      • Toru Tuziuti, Yoshiharu Nakamura

      Pages 123-128

   4. Effects of the Interstellar Neutral Wind on the Structure of the Heliosphere - Laboratory Simulation

      • Shigeyuki Minami

      Pages 129-138

5. Meteorologico-Electric Environment and EHD

   1. EHD and EMHD Transport Processes in Dusty and Dirty Plasmas

      • Hiroshi Kikuchi

      Pages 139-148

   2. The Mechanism of Electrohydrodynamic Wind Generation in a Lower Atomosphere

      • A. Watson, Jen-Shih Chang

      Pages 149-161

   3. Verhulst Dynamics and Fractal Stretching of Transition Layer Vorticity

      • Geert C. Dijkhuis

      Pages 163-176

   4. The State of Matter Field and Its Property: A New Basic Approach to the Understanding of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Electromagnetic Environment

      • Swen Alfas, Sofia Ipavec

      Pages 177-196

6. Self-Organization and Turbulence

   1. Self-Organization Processes in Turbulent Atomosphere and Methods for Their Study

      • Andrey A. Lazarev, Semen S. Moiseev

      Pages 197-210

   2. Studying of Helical Turbulence Self-Organization Based on 3D-Generalization of Hasegawa-Mima Equation

      • N. S. Erokhin, W. Horton, S. S. Moiseev

      Pages 211-223

   3. Quantum Aspects of Self-Organization in Dynamically Random Systems

      • Alexander A. Berezin

      Pages 225-240

   4. A Self-Organization in Plasmas

      • Naoaki Bekki

      Pages 241-248

I have been asked by Professor Kikuchi to write a foreword for this interesting book on Dusty Plasmas and other electrical phenomena. This was a somewhat daunting task due to the wide range of topics covered. In what follows I have attempted to summarize most of these topics; for this purpose I have divided them into four groups, namely (a) Dusty Plasmas, (b) The Electrical Environment, (c) Lightning and (d) The Noise Environment. I hope that I have succeeded. in indicating that each section contains much that is of great interest. It is perhaps unnecessary for me to point out that the book contains subjects which are at an exciting and important stage in their development. (a) Dusty Plasmas The subject of dusty plasmas is one of great interest. Dust particles in interplanetary space, within comets, in inter-stellar space and at ever greater distances will in general be charged. The plasma environment will ensure this, bombarding electrons will charge up the particle until it assumes a "floating potential," although time variation can occur. Ultra violet radiation can cause photoemission and in certain cases field emission is a possibility. The motion of the particles will be determined by electric and magnetic fields together with gravity. If the density of charged grains becomes sufficiently high the grains will interact with each other and collective behaviour will ensue. This newly evolving subject entails the study of all kinds of plasma waves.

• Gravity
• dynamics
• relativistic jet
• turbulence
• waves

• Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

  Hiroshi Kikuchi

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