Electrohydrodynamics in Dusty and Dirty Plasmas, 2001 Gravito-Electrodynamics and EHD Astrophysics and Space Science Library Series, Vol. 258

This monograph is the first book exclusively devoted to Electrohydrodynamics in Dusty and Dirty Plasmas with extended Electrodynamics and Gravito-Electrodynamics with Electric Mirrors. The book incorporates novel concepts of Electro Cusp-Reconnection and Generalized Critical Ionization Velocities as well as modern concepts of Self-Organization and Chaos. Therefore, the book is special and quite different from the previous edition in the field of plasma physics in terms of scope, object, and approach. The scope of the present work is much broader and much more general with space and laboratory applications, including collisional neutral and partially ionized gases in electric and space-charge fields, thereby accompanying electrical charging, electrification, discharge, ionization and recombination. The book will serve as a text book, text-related or reference book for graduate students, post graduates, and scientists in geo-astro, space, and laboratory plasma physics, electromagnetics and fluid dynamics. In addition, it will be useful for researchers outside the plasma community who wish to obtain new physical insights, aspects, and points of view.

1 Introduction.- 2 Particle Dynamics of Dust: Gravito-Electrodynamics.- 3 Electric Cusp and Reconnection.- 4 Electrodynamics and Gravito-Electrodynamics of Dust in an Electric Cusp or Mirror.- 5 Critical Ionization Velocities.- 6 Joint Effects of Electric Reconnection and Critical Velocity Ionization for Collisional Gases.- 7 EHD and EMHD Transport Processes in a Charged One-Component Fluid: Single Fluid Model.- 8 EHD or EMHD for Multi-Component Dusty Plasmas.- 9 EHD Turbulence, Vortices, and Self-Organizations.- 10 Dust in Space and in the Laboratory Including Further Examples of Electric Reconnection and Critical Velocity Ionization.