PHY 6123 PLASMA PHYSICS AND MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS (MHD)
3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, PHY 5103 and PHY 5203, or consent of instructor.
Plasma equations, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), waves and instabilities in two-fluid model, Vlasov and Fokker-Planck equations, Landau damping, turbulence in plasmas, radiation in plasmas, quasi-linear theory, wave-particle interaction, kinetic theory in space plasmas.