Course Term: Trinity
Course Overview:
8 Lectures
Area: Astro
Elements of stability theory for collisionless plasmas, linear and nonlinear. Nyquist’s
method, Penrose’s criterion. Thermodynamics of collisionless plasma. Gardner’s theorem.
Statistical mechanics and quasilinear theory of collisionless relaxation. Kadomtsev-Pogutse,
Lenard-Balescu and Landau effective collision integrals. The structure of nonlinear theory and
role of phase-space turbulence. Plasma echo. Anti-phase-mixing. Quasiparticle kinetics and
weak turbulence theory. Langmuir turbulence.
Link to submit your homework to TA David Hosking:
https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/z8BaKN6BcJm3BkE
External Lecturer(s):
Prof. Alex Schekochihin
Assessment Type:
No formal assessment; homework completion