Recommended Bibliography
The asterisk (*) indicates books which contain exercises
Plasma Formulary
General Plasma Physics
- F. F. Chen, Introduction to Plasma Physics, 2nd edition, Plenum Press, 1984*
- T. J. M. Boyd and J.J.Sanderson, The physics of Plasmas, Cambridge University Press, 2003*
- P. M. Bellan, Fundamentals of Plasma Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2006*
- D.A. Gurnett and A. Bhattacharjee, Introduction to Plasma Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2005*
- D.R. Nicholson, Introduction to Plasma Theory, Jon Wiley & Sons, 1983*
- N.A. Krall, and A.W. Trivelpiece, Principles of Plasma Physics, McGraw-Hill, 1973*
- Prof. A. Fasoli's Plasma Physics II Lecture Notes
Fusion
- J. Freidberg, Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy, Cambridge University Press, 2007*
- J. Wesson, Tokamaks - Third Edition, Clarendon Press - Oxford, 2004
- J. Freidberg, Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics, Plenum Press, 1987*
Plasma Diagnostics
- I. H. Hutchinson, Principles of Plasma Diagnostics, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2002*
Plasma Application
- M. A. Lieberman and A. J. Lichtenberg, "Principles of Plasma Discharges and Materials Processing", (John Wiley and Sons, Second Edition, Hoboken, New Jersey), 2005*
- F. F. Chen and J. P. Chang, "Lecture Notes on Principles of Plasma Processing" (Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York), 2003*
- Y. P. Raizer, "Gas Discharge Physics", (Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg), 1991
Plasma Astrophysics
- E. Priest and T. Forbes, Magnetic reconnection: MHD theory and applications, Cambridge University Press, 2000*
- N. Myer-Vernet, Basics of the Solar Wind, Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series, 2012*
- Peter V.Foukal, Wiley, Solar Astrophysics, June 14, 1990
- P.A. Davidson, An introduction to magnetohydrodynamics, Cambridge University Press, 2001*
- D.H. Hathaway, The solar cycle, Living Rev. Solar Phys. 7 (2010), 1
Numerical algorithm and PIC method
- C.K. Birdsall and A.B. Langdon, Plasma Physics via Computer Simulations, McGraw-Hill, 1985*
- R.W. Hockney and J.W. Eastwood, Computer simulations using particles, Adam Hilger, 1988