"Progress in Fine Particle Plasmas" ed. by Tetsu Mieno, Yasuaki Hayashi, Kun Xue

This book intends to provide the reader with the recent progress of studies of fine particle plasmas from the viewpoints of wide and interdisciplinary directions, such as self-organized fine particles, Coulomb crystal formation, behaviors of fine particles, their stability, and syntheses of nano-sized particles in reactive plasmas. The phenomena of dense grain particles and the effects of massive neutrinos in galaxy clustering are included.

In the field of plasma physics, plasmas (including charged fine particles) have been actively studied for more than 40 years, and special features of wave phenomena, self-organizations of the particles, potential formations, fluid-like motions of the particles, generations of fine particles in the plasmas, etc. have been investigated. Here, these plasmas are called “fine particle plasmas”, which are also called “dusty plasmas” and “complex plasmas”.

Contents
1.Observation and Analyses of Coulomb Crystals in Fine Particle Plasmas
2.Basic Properties of Fine Particle (Dusty) Plasmas
3.Microgravity Experiments Using Parabolic Flights for Dusty Plasmas
4.Dynamic Behavior of Dust Particles in Plasmas
5.Integral Photography Technique for Three-Dimensional Imaging of Dusty Plasmas
6.Dusty Plasmas in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
7.Tungsten Nanoparticles Produced by Magnetron Sputtering Gas Aggregation: Process Characterization and Particle Properties
8.Turbulence Generation in Inhomogeneous Magnetized Plasma Pertaining to Damping Effects on Wave Propagation
9.Flow and Segregation of Granular Materials during Heap Formation
10.Kinetic Equations of Granular Media
11.Comparison of Concentration Transport Approach and MP-PIC Method for Simulating Proppant Transport Process
12.Massive Neutrinos and Galaxy Clustering in f(R) Gravity Cosmologies