Handbook on Plasma Instabilities. Volume 1

Academic Press, Inc., 1976. — 467 p.The book begins with a survey of the many applications of plasma sciences and presents in Chapters 2-7 the fundamental concepts of plasma physics. Results are presented in the way in which they are needed later on when instabilities are discussed. Basic plasma physics, the physics of instabilities, orbit theory, kinetic theory, magnetohydrodynamies, and the many-fluid theory are presented. Chapters 8 and 9 on principles of plasma containment and on waves in plasmas round out the basic picture and prepare the beginner for the following chapters on instabilities.
Basic features of plasma instabilities and their classification form the next chapter (Chapter 10). In Chapters 11 and 12 the classical magnetohydrodynamic stability theory of an ideal and of a real plasma is then given. Drift waves and drift instabilities are considered next in Chapter 13.