Download or read book Relaxation Dynamics in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas written by Patrick H. Diamond and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book provides a unique opportunity to embrace the complex and fascinating theory of relaxation processes in magnetized plasmas, both in astrophysics and in controlled fusion plasmas. The subjects range from dynamo and reconnection processes in magneto-hydrodynamics and electromagnetic turbulence to fast transport events in self-organized turbulence. Such phenomena, recognized as key bolts in our present understanding, turn out to be extremely challenging for theoretical models. This book efficiently helps to bridge our understanding and description of such processes, analogously observed in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.