Plasma Modeling: Methods and applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling, giving details about theoretical and numerical methods. It describes kinetic models used in plasma investigations, develops the theory of fluid equations and hybrid models, and discusses applications and practical problems across a range of fields. It also gives details on computational techniques not fully described in scientific papers and provides a comprehensive bibliography to facilitate further study.

This updated second edition contains over 200 pages of new material, including new chapters on drift-diffusion model, cold plasma simulations, hypersonic flows, plasma aerodynamics, plasma jets, micro-arcs, plasma confinement in Tokamaks and an extensive new part that discusses methods to calculate data needed in plasma modeling, such as thermodynamic and transport properties, state specific rate coefficients in heavy particle collisions and electron impact cross sections. This updated research and reference text is an excellent resource to assist and direct students and researchers who want to develop research activity in the field of plasma physics in the choice of the best model for the problem of interest.