From:
bds@ipp.mpg.de (Bruce D. Scott)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject:
Re: Landau damping
Date: 4 Feb 1998 16:45:07 GMT
Organization:
Rechenzentrum der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Garching
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Steve Lidia
wrote:
|> Lutz Maibaum (maibaum@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de)
wrote:
|>
|> : I am looking for a derivation of the Landau
damping formula, starting from
|> : the Vlasov equation. Does anyone
know a source in which this is given in a
|> : correct but
comprehensive way ?
|> Landau and Lifshitz, "Physical
Kinetics", p. 124 is a good place to start.
|>
|> Also,
Nicholson, "Introduction to Plasma Theory".
More rigorous
than either, and even in German, is the treatment by K-H
Spatscheck in
"Theoretische Plasmaphysik".
This is the best
introductory text for a theorist I've seen in
either English or German.
cu,
Bruce
--
"That's
the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully
appreciate
global warming. To wit: if you drop a
frog in a pan of hot
water, it jumps out.
If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn
the heat up
slowly, you can roast it to death."
-- Clive Thompson