Propagation in Ionized Media
| Code | 221 |
|---|---|
| Semester | Fall |
| Class Hours - Lab Hours | 3 - 0 |
| Lecturers | Kyriakos Hizanidis, Ioannis Kominis (School of AMPS) |
Description
Basic parameters for plasma description. Debye length. Plasma frequency. Collisions. Electron and ion dynamics in electromagnetic fields. Wave-particle interaction. Macroscopic plasma description models. Description as electromagnetic fluid. Magnetohydrodynamic description. Kinetic analysis. Magnetized and magnetized plasma. Plasma as a dielectric medium. Dispersion relation, resonances and cut-offs. Description of cold/hot plasma. Analytical techniques for solving the dispersion equation of unmagnetized/magnetized cold/hot plasma. Kinetic description of unmagnetized/ magnetized plasma. Landau and cyclotron damping. Beam-plasma instability. Nonlinear phenomena in electromagnetic propagation in plasma. Quasilinear theory. Introduction to asymptotic methods of geometric optics.