Propagation of electromagnetic waves in plasmas
| Code | 3.1.3303.7 |
|---|---|
| Semester | 7th |
| Flow | T - Electromagnetic Waves and Telecommunication |
| Category | Obligatory by selection |
| Credits | 4 |
| Class Hours - Lab Hours | 4 - 0 |
| Lecturers | Kyriakos Hizanidis, Ioannis Kominis (School of AMPS) |
Description
Ionized media and plasmas in nature and in the laboratory. Introductory kinetic theory and statistical description. Collisionless Vlasov-Hartree-Fock equation. Dispersion relations in ionized media in general (magnetized and un-magnetized). Cold medium - test particle description and derivation of the cold plasma dispersion relation in various forms (Stix, Allis). Linearized Vlasov equation in unmagnetized media. Linear dispersion tensor in thermal electron and electron-ion plasmas. Description of the various modes supported in such media. Landau damping. Magnetized linearized Vlasov equation and Harris dispersion relation. Dispersion.