Publisher's Synopsis
Volume 2 of the Handbook of Plasma Physics is devoted largely to situations where the nonlinear interaction is so strong that the assumptions of weak turbulence are violated. In particular the following aspects are covered: - a review of a group of theories that invoke a renormalization procedure; - parametric instabilities driven by external pump fields; - the strong interaction between Langmuir waves and ion fluctuations which leads to the formation of solitons and their subsequent collapse; - anomalous plasma resistivity caused by current driven instabilities; - collective interaction of intense beams of charged particles in a plasma and, - the relaxation of plasma with anisotropic velocity distribution.
