The Renaissance

Children's Books

Michel, Pierre

History

Puffin

James Gould Cozzens (Twayne's United States authors series)

Twayne Publishers

L'orient Et Rome: Étude Sur L'union (French Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Nabu Press

Poésies complètes

Literature & Fiction

Villon, François

Contemporary

La terre de la grande punition: Histoire des bagnes de Guyane (Document) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Ramsay

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of laser-plasma interactions (LPI), based on a graduate course taught by the author. The emphasis is on high-energy-density physics (HEDP) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF), with a comprehensive description of the propagation, absorption, nonlinear effects and parametric instabilities of high energy lasers in plasmas. The recent demonstration of a burning plasma on the verge of nuclear fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, has marked the beginning of a new era of ICF and fusion research. These new developments make LPI more relevant than ever, and the resulting influx of new scientists necessitates new pedagogical material on the subject. In contrast to the classical textbooks on LPI, this book provides a complete description of all wave-coupling instabilities in unmagnetized plasmas in the kinetic as well as fluid pictures, and includes a comprehensive description of the optical smoothing techniques used on high-power lasers and their impact on laser-plasma instabilities. It summarizes all the key developments from the 1970s to the present day in view of the current state of LPI and ICF research; it provides a derivation of the key LPI metrics and formulas from first principles, and connects the theory to experimental observables. With exercises and plenty of illustrations, this book is ideal as a textbook for a course on laser-plasma interactions or as a supplementary text for graduate introductory plasma physics course. Students and researchers will also find it to be an invaluable reference and self-study resource.

Introduction to Laser-Plasma Interactions (Graduate Texts in Physics)

Science & Math

Physics

Springer

Optimizing the shape of an object to make it the most efficient, resistant, streamlined, lightest, noiseless, stealthy or the cheapest is clearly a very old task. But the recent explosion of modeling and scientific computing has given this topic new life. Many new and interesting questions have been asked. A mathematical topic was born shape optimization (or optimum design). This book provides a self-contained introduction to modern mathematical approaches to shape optimization. The book assumes only an undergraduate-level understanding of the subject matter but tackles open questions in this vibrant field. The analytical and geometrical tools and methods for the study of shapes are developed. In particular, the text presents a systematic treatment of shape variations and optimization associated with the Laplace operator and the classical capacity. Emphasis is also put on differentiation with respect to domains and a FAQ on the usual topologies of domains is provided. The book ends with geometrical properties of optimal shapes, including the case where they do not exist.

Shape Variation and Optimization: A Geometrical Analysis (EMS Tracts in Mathematics) (Ems Tracts in Mathematics, 28)

Antoine Henrot

Mathematics

European Mathematical Society

Historia de Los Hombres - Pros. Hombres (Spanish Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

Edelvives

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