Statistical Mechanics and Random Walks: Principles, Processes and Applications

0369649 - ÚFP 2013 RIV US eng M - Monography Chapter
Krlín, Ladislav - Papřok, Richard - Seidl, Jakub - Pánek, Radomír - Stöckel, Jan
Anomalous Diffusion of Particles in Edge Plasma Turbulence in Tokamaks and Random and Lévy Walk Distributions.
Statistical Mechanics and Random Walks: Principles, Processes and Applications. New York: Nova Science Publisher, 2011 - (Skogseid, A.; Fasano, V.), s. 65-90. ISBN 978-1-61470-987-9
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA1043201; GA ČR GAP205/11/2341; GA ČR GA202/07/0044
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20430508
Keywords : Anomalous diffusion * particles turbulence * tokamak
Subject RIV: BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics

Random walks (together with Gaussian distribution) appeared in the theory and applications in the beginning of the twentieth century and very quickly gained the attention of the general physicsist audience. Its generalization in the forms of Lévy distribution, Lévy flights and Lévy walk was formulated inthe 1920’s and first remained only in a form of a mathematical (and rather sophisticated) problem. A lot of interesting applications started to appear in the last thirty years and one of branches of science where this phenomenon was found is turbulence in tokamak plasma.
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