ABSTRACT
The investigations of a plasma with significant interparticle interaction (a non-ideal plasma) are progressing rapidly due to the development of prospective technical projects among which are powerful MHD generators, devices constructed on the basis of gas phase nuclear reactors, controlled thermonuclear fusion, plasmotrons and plasmochemical reactors. A plasma with strong Coulomb interaction appears after the action of a substance by strong shock waves, powerful laser radiation, electron and ion beams, in magnetic cumulative generators, at hypersonic flights in the atmospheres of planets, at high speed impact etc. The design of new technology devices and the necessary modeling of high velocity hypersonic phenomena assume both the thermodynamical properties of a non-ideal plasma (investigated theoretically and by experiment) and the transport and optical properties to be known. The topicality of the present monograph which contains theoretical, model and applied aspects of investigation problems of transport phenomena in a dense low-temperature plasma, is determined by the above mentioned circumstances and the lack of up-to-date publications of such a type. The monograph contains three sections: the theory of transport processes for media with strong interparticle interactions is discussed in the first one, model description of nonideal media transport processes based significantly on experimental information is discussed in the second and the third section discusses the set of problems with transport processes being determined.
