DUSTY PLASMAS

"Remember, dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return"  Genesis 3:19

• What is a dusty plasma, where are dusty plasmas, and why are they important?   A dusty plasma primer
   
• Dust acoustic waves in dusty plasmas -- N. N. Rao, P. K. Shukla, and M. Y. Yu, Planet. Space Sci., 38, 543 (1990)
   
• Low-Frequency Electrostatic Waves in Dusty Plasmas, N. D'Angelo, Planet. Space Sci. 38, 1143 (1990).
   
• C. K. Goertz - Dusty Plasmas in the Solar System, Rev. Geophys. 27, 271, 1989.
   
• Proceedings of the First Capri Workshop on Dusty Plasmas, May 28- June 2 1989
   
• A Dust Ball ( three dimensional Coulomb Crystal)
   
• Physics Today Article on Dusty Plasmas
   
• Dusty Plasmas and applications in space and industry, Chapter 5, in Plasma Physics Applied, Edited by C. Grabbe, Transworld Research Network (Kerala, India, 2006) pages74-110. PDF (If you want a reprint, email me your postal address).
   
• Liquid oxygen and hydrogen escaping from the external fuel tank of the Shuttle Atlantis during STS-122
   
• Design considerations for a laboratory dusty plasma with magnetized dust particles
   
• First derivation of the dust charging equation from OML theory (Rosen, Phys. Fluids 5, 737, 1962)
   
• Discoveries of waves in dusty plasmas (A. A. Mamun and P. K. Shuklka, J. Plasma Physics doi:10:1017/s0022377810000589)
   
• On the use of the Epstein formula for the neutral drag on dust particles
   
• Invited Talk at the 6th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Garmisch, Partenkirchen, Germany, May 16, 2011.    Proceedings Paper      PowerPoint Presentation
   
• Stationary dust density structures
   
• Video of dust acoustic waves excited in a drifting dust cloud  preprint
   
• Video of the Taylor instability in a dusty plasma  preprint