Chapter Six: Analytical Chapter

Plasma parameters are very wide ranged. The electron density can be as low as 10⁻⁵/cc in the interstellar, and as high as 10²⁵/cc in the center of the sun. The temperature could be as low as 10⁻² eV, and as high as 10⁵ eV. Moreover, the mass disparity in the electron-to-ion ratiomakes the characteristic frequencies and lengths vary by many orders of magnitude. Plasma physics thus offers great challenges in the uncompromising time and length scales for analysis or simulation…