528 Index
magnetic buoyancy, 106
magnetic containment fusion, 5
magnetic convection equation, 68
magnetic curvature, 128
magnetic energy, 104
magnetic field
bumpy, 44
force-free, 99
generation, 162
geomagnetic tail, see magnetotail, magnetic field in
induced, 16
interplanetary, 195
measurement by Thomson scattering, see Thomson
scattering, coherent, effect of magnetic field
reconnection, 146
reversal, 144
solar, 106
magnetic field lines
ergodic, 94
pitch of, 88
magnetic flux
poloidal, 95
toroidal, 96
magnetic helicity, 102, 103, 143, 166
magnetic islands, 142, 158
magnetic knot, 105
magnetic mirror, 25, 26, 33, 36, 305
magnetic modulation of scattered light spectrum, 360
magnetic moment, 16, 25, 68
invariance of, 25, 34, 36, 44, 68
magnetic pressure, 83
magnetic reconnection, 142, 148, 177–179
driven, 145
spontaneous, 145
magnetic relaxation, 142
magnetic shear, 22, 125, 129, 155, 158
magnetic surface, 80
magnetic tension, 83
magnetic trap, 31
magnetic well, 93, 129
magnetization, 16, 23
magneto-ionic theory, 224
magnetoacoustic wave, 233, 411
fast, 132
slow, 132
magnetohydrostatic condition, 106
magnetopause, 31, 177–179
magnetosheath, 177–179, 405
magnetosphere, 7, 146, 169, 177–179, 197
magnetotail, 7, 177
magnetic field in, 44
Manley–Rowe relations, 392
Markov system, 494
Markovian, 307
mass conservation, 52
mass density, 485
Maxwell equations, 13, 23, 182, 255, 409
reduced, 488
Maxwell stress tensor, see stress tensor, Maxwell
mean free path, 469
collisional, 302, 304, 405
electron, 10, 63, 476
electron–ion, 176
ion, 63
turbulent dissipation, 408
MHD approximation, 58, 63, 488, 489
non-relativistic, 63
MHD equations, 48, 480, 488
dissipative, 501
MHD equilibria
solar, 105
MHD instabilities, see instabilities, MHD
micro-instabilities, 262, 268
minimum B stability condition, 129
Mirnov oscillations, 158
mirror ratio, 27
mirror trap, 27–30
mobility
electron, 300
ion, 300
mode conversion, see linear mode conversion
mode rational surface, 157
moment equations, 480–487
general moment equation, 483
moment integrals of distribution function, 482
electrodynamical, 491
hydrodynamical, 491–494
non-hydrodynamical, 491–494
non-plasmadynamical, 491
plasmadynamical, 491
momentum equation
parallel, 70
perpendicular, 70
Navier–Stokes equation, 55
neoclassical theory, 491
neoclassical transport, 304, 487
Nernst effect, 495
neutral sheet, 44, 142, 146
non-linear Schr
¨
odinger equation, 403, 423
number density, 7, 480
Nyquist diagrams, 270
Ohm’s law, 59, 64, 496, 504
generalized, 64, 73, 486, 494
in MHD approximation, 65
in warm plasma wave equations, 73, 231
omega-effect, 165–167
Onsager symmetry, 492
optical depth, see radiative transport equation, optical
depth
optically thick plasma, 333
optically thin plasma, 332
ordinary mode, 214, 411
pair correlation function, 469, 470
equilibrium, 475
parameter space, 10, 218, 219
parametric amplification, 376
parametric waves, 377