Download or read book Charged Particle Transport in Turbulent Astrophysical Plasmas written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect of electromagnetic fluctuations, or plasma turbulence, on the motion of the individual particles in a plasma is investigated; two alternative methods are used to find a general equation governing the time-evolution of a distribution of charged particles subject to both an external force field and the random fields of the fluctuations. It is found that, for the high-temperature, low-density plasmas frequently encountered in the study of astrophysics, the presence of even a small amount of turbulence can have a very important effect on the behavior of the plasma. Two problems in which turbulence plays an important role are treated in detail. (Author).