BRAZIL - UFRGS

INSTITUTO DE FISICA
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL

Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, C.P. 15051, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

Telephone: +55 51 316 7111
Telefax: +55 51 319 1762
E-mail: ziebell@if.ufrgs.br
URL:   http://www.if.ufrgs.br

Plasma Theory Group

Dillenburg, Darcy
Gallas, Jason A.C.

Goedert, João
Rizzato, Felipe B.

Schneider, Ruth S.
Ziebell, Luiz F.

Research activities:

• Emission, amplification and absorption of electron cyclotron radiation in plasmas.
• Heating and current drive in thermonuclear plasmas.
• Dielectric properties of inhomogeneous plasmas.
• Waves and instabilities in space and astrophysical plasmas.
• Wave propagation in dusty plasmas.
• Numerical simulation of dusty plasma expansion.
• Stability and Hamiltonian formulation in fluids and plasmas.
• Chaos and bifurcation in acceleration systems at low energies.
• Instabilities, nonlinearity, saturation and chaos in cyclotron maser resonating accelerators.
• Chaos and turbulence in the Zakharov equations.
• Nonlinear dynamics of Alfvén waves.
• Dynamics and number theory.
• Nonlinear dynamics and conservative quantum systems.