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Abstract:

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

  • PREFACE

  • AVANT-PROPOS/FOREWORD

  • RÉSUMÉ

  • COLOUR PLATES

  • SELF-ORGANISATION AND STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUID AND PLASMA TURBULENCE

    • Coherent structures in plasma turbulence

    • Vortices and turbulent relaxation in magnetized electron columns

    • Spontaneous generation of coherent vortices and long-range order in 2-D turbulence

    • Fluctuations in a magnetized toroidal plasma without rotational transform

    • Spectral reduction for two-dimensional turbulence

    • Applications of higher-order statistical signal processing to nonlinear phenomena

    • Individual event analysis: a new tool for the investigation of structures in turbulence

    • Formation of coupled electron hole and ion soliton in a collisionless plasma

    • Ballooning vortices in plasmas with sheared field and flow

    • Experimental study of transition phenomena from regular to turbulent drift waves

    • Numerical study of turbulence in N–body hamiltonian systems with long range force - II Structures

    • Quasiparticle invariants and constraints on energy transfer

    • Turbulence and coherent structures

    • Statistical analysis of turbulence fluctuation data

  • CHAOTIC DYNAMICS AND TRANSPORT

    • On the existence of self-similar structures in the resonance domain

    • Diffusion of adiabatic invariant and chaotic advection in a confined incompressible Stokes flow

    • Some characteristics of two degrees of freedom Hamiltonian flows

    • Theoretical and experimental investigation of ergodic divertor operation on Tore Supra

    • Origin of diffusion in hamiltonian dynamics

    • Diffusion of guiding centres due to a stochastic magnetic field and a two-state stochastic acceleration

    • Subdiffusive behavior in sheared magnetic configurations

    • Diagram of collisional regimes for particle diffusion in a stochastic magnetic field

    • Magnetic topology in a tokamak due to current filaments

    • Degree of destruction of magnetic surfaces and plasma transport in a tokamak

    • Lower-hybrid ray stochasticity induced by magnetic ripple

    • Finite webs in Minkowski space: a covariant formulation of the problem of a charged particle in a perpendicular electrostatic wave

    • The regular and stochastic motion of charged particles in the earth magnetotail

    • Discrete Fermi mapping for photon acceleration in a time varying plasma cavity

    • Action and tune diffusion for hamiltonian systems with a modulated linear frequency

    • Spatio-temporal intermittency and chaotic stimulated Raman backscattering

    • Observation of harmonic bifurcation route to turbulence in an air jet by collective light scattering

  • TURBULENT TRANSPORT IN PLASMAS

    • On the origins of tokamak edge turbulence and the H-mode transition

    • On the statistical properties of turbulent transport in TJ-I Tokamak and TJ-IU Torsatron

    • Gyrokinetic simulation studies of transport barriers

    • Toroidal computation of drift wave turbulence and transport

    • Numerical simulation of moderate-n ballooning modes in tokamaks

    • Sandpile dynamics as a paradigm for turbulent transport

    • Neoclassical and anomalous transport in weakly turbulent toroidal plasmas

    • Correlation lengths of electrostatic turbulence

    • Experimental investigation of fluctuation-induced radial transport due to drift wave turbulence

    • Observation of chaotic fluctuation-induced transport in a magnetized discharge plasma

  • DIAGNOSTICS OF TRANSPORT AND THEIR CONFLICTING INTERPRETATIONS

    • Effects of finite sample volumes on fluctuation measurements

    • Experimental access to the topology of the magnetic field in a tokamak; measurements of plasma filamentation in RTP

    • Comparison of results from core fluctuation diagnostics on TEXT-U

    • Local density fluctuation dependencies in TORE SUPRA tokamak L mode plasmas

    • Parametric analysis of internal magnetic fluctuations in the TORE SUPRA tokamak

    • Fluctuations and electromagnetic wave scattering in low-frequency oscillating magnetized plasma

  • WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTION

    • Phase transition of Langmuir turbulence and disappearance of weak and strong turbulence regimes in strong magnetic fields

    • Warm beam-plasma instability beyond saturation

    • Nonlinear dynamics of wave-particle interaction in the case of a wide spectrum, and diffusivity

    • An instability of high currents beams

  • List of participants

  • Author Index