This book treats stochastic motion in nonlinear oscillator systems. It describes a rapidly
growing field of nonlinear mechanics with applications to a number of areas in science and …

Abstract Silicon nitride (Si3N4) ceramics are used in numerous applications because of their
superior mechanical properties,. Their intrinsically brittle nature is a critical issue, but can be …

The motion of an ion in a lower hybrid wave in a tokamak type plasma is studied. For ions
with.. nu../sub perpendicular to/approximately greater than.. omega../k/sub perpendicular …

The magnetopause and boundary layer are typically characterized by large amplitude
transverse wave activity with frequencies below the ion cyclotron frequency. The signatures …

Understanding how complex systems respond to change is of fundamental importance in
the natural sciences. There is particular interest in systems whose classical newtonian …

Observations from the FAST satellite are used to create a model for dispersive Alfvén waves
above the auroral oval. Using this model, it is shown how these waves may accelerate …

Ion Bernstein wave heating (IBWH) utilizes the ion Bernstein wave (IBW), a hot plasma
wave, to carry the radio frequency (rf) power to heat the tokamak reactor core. Earlier wave …

We. treat a simple problem exhibiting intrinsic stochasticity: the motion of a charged particle
in a uniform magnetic field and a single plane wave. Our detailed studies of this wave …

Observations of powerful radio waves from neutron star magnetospheres raise the question
of how strong waves interact with particles in a strong background magnetic field B bg. This …

The Wentzel, Kramers, and Brillouin (WKB) approximation of geometrical optics is widely
used in plasma physics, quantum mechanics, and reduced wave modeling, in general …