With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser beams,electron and ion beams, hypersonic entry of spacecraft into dense atmospheres of planets, and in many other situations characterized by extremely high pressures and temperatures.
Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the topic, this book will inform and fascinate all scientists dealing with materials properties and physics, and also serve as an excellent introduction to plasma-, shock-wave and high-energy-density physics for students and newcomers seeking an overview.
Author(s): Vladimir E. Fortov (auth.)
Series: The Frontiers Collection
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 332
Tags: Astrophysics and Astroparticles;Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction;Plasma Physics;Materials Science, general;Laser Technology, Photonics;Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Matter under Extreme Conditions: Classification of States....Pages 7-24
High Energy Densities in Laboratories....Pages 25-74
High-Power Lasers in High-Energy-Density Physics....Pages 75-96
Relativistic Charged Particle Beams....Pages 97-142
Technical Applications of the Physics of High Energy Densities....Pages 143-184
Astrophysical Aspects of High Energy Densities....Pages 185-330
Conclusion....Pages 331-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-333
