Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Thermodynamics (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics Book 66) - new book

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ISBN/EAN: 1441981829

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1-4419-8182-9, 978-1-4419-8182-0
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Book author: colonna, angola, capitelli
Book title: aspects the novel, thermodynamics, fundamental plasma physics

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Author: Mario Capitelli; Gianpiero Colonna; Antonio D'Angola
Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics; Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics - Thermodynamics
Publisher: Springer; Springer US
310 Pages
Publishing year: 2011-12-02
New York; NY; US
Language: English
149,79 € (DE)
154,00 € (AT)
177,00 CHF (CH)
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EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Physik, Astronomie/Sonstiges; Plasmaphysik; Verstehen; Classical thermodynamics; Debye Hückel corrections; Thermodynamics of equilibrium plasmas; electronic excitation; fundamentals of plasma chemical physics; C; Plasma Physics; Physical Chemistry; Thermodynamics; Complex Systems; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Physikalische Chemie; Thermodynamik und Wärme; Kybernetik und Systemtheorie; Mathematische Physik; BC

Classical Thermodynamics.- Two and Three Level Systems.- Statistical Thermodynamics.- Atomic Partition Function.- Molecular Partition Function.- Real Effects: I. Debye-Hückel.- Real Effects: II. Virial Corrections.- Electronic Excitation.- Multi-Temperature Thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics of Planetary Plasmas.- Appendix.

Mario Capitelli, University of Bari, mario.capitelli@ba.imip.cnr.it

Gianpiero Colonna, IMIP CNR Bari,

develops basic and advanced concepts of plasma thermodynamics from both classical and statistical points of view.

After a refreshment of classical thermodynamics applied to the dissociation and ionization regimes, the book invites the reader to discover the role of electronic excitation in affecting the properties of plasmas, a topic often overlooked by the thermal plasma community.

Particular attention is devoted to the problem of the divergence of the partition function of atomic species and the state-to-state approach for calculating the partition function of diatomic and polyatomic molecules. The limit of ideal gas approximation is also discussed, by introducing Debye-Huckel and virial corrections.

Throughout the book, worked examples are given in order to clarify concepts and mathematical approaches.

This book is a first of a series of three books to be published by the authors on fundamental aspects of plasma chemical physics.  The next books will discuss transport and kinetics.