Physics of Partially Ionized Plasmas

Vinod Krishan received her PhD from the University of Tennessee. She was Senior Professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, and held visiting positions at the Indian Institute of Science, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, the National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, the University of Tokyo and the Raman Research Institute, India. She has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience and has published more than 100 research papers in national and international journals. She has taught courses on plasma astrophysics, quantum mechanics and statistical physics at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her major research interests have been in the areas of space and astrophysical plasmas.

• Figures; Preface; 1. Partially ionized plasmas here and everywhere; 2. Multifluid description of partially ionized plasmas; 3. Equilibrium of partially ionized plasmas; 4. Waves in partially ionized plasmas; 5. Advanced topics in partially ionized plasmas; 6. Research problems in partially ionized plasmas; Supplementary matter; Index.

'Professor Krishan is to be congratulated for such a mathematically detailed presentation of her material, which allows the reader to follow the developments step by step. Make no mistake, this is a challenging book, but it is also an extremely rewarding one for anyone who wants to acquire a thorough grounding in the theory of partially ionized plasmas.' Terry Robinson, The Observatory