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Low temperature plasmas. --- Low temperature engineering. --- Cryogenic engineering --- Cryogenics --- Engineering --- Low temperatures --- Cold plasmas --- Plasmas, Low temperature --- Plasma (Ionized gases)

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This book offers the reader an overview of the basic approaches to the theoretical description of low-temperature plasmas, covering numerical methods, mathematical models and modeling techniques. The main methods of calculating the cross sections of plasma particle interaction and the solution of the kinetic Boltzmann equation for determining the transport coefficients of the plasma are also presented. The results of calculations of thermodynamic properties, transport coefficients, the equilibrium particle-interaction cross sections and two-temperature plasmas are also discussed. Later chapters consider applications, and the results of simulation and calculation of plasma parameters in induction and arc plasma torches are presented. The complex physical processes in high-frequency plasmas and arc plasmas, the internal and external parameters of plasma torches, near-electrode processes, heat transfer, the flow of solid particles in plasmas and other phenomena are considered. The book is intended for professionals involved in the theoretical study of low-temperature plasmas and the design of plasma torches, and will be useful for advanced students in related areas.

Plasma Physics. --- Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation. --- Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences. --- Low temperature plasmas. --- Cold plasmas --- Plasmas, Low temperature --- Physics. --- Mathematical physics. --- Plasma (Ionized gases). --- Plasma (Ionized gases) --- Physical mathematics --- Physics --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Gaseous discharge --- Gaseous plasma --- Magnetoplasma --- Ionized gases --- Mathematics

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Cold atmospheric plasma is an auspicious new candidate in cancer treatment. Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) is a partially ionized gas in which the ion temperature is close to room temperature. It contains electrons, charged particles, radicals, various excited molecules and UV photons. These various compositional elements have the potential to inhibit cancer cell activity whilst doing no harm to healthy cells. Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and lethal primary brain tumor in adults; treatment including surgery, radio- and chemotherapy remains palliative for most patients as a cure remains elusive. The successful combination of the standard chemotherapeutic temozolomide (TMZ) and CAP treatment features synergistic effects even in resistant glioma cells. In particular in glioma therapy, CAP could offer an innovative approach allowing specific cancer cell / tumor tissue inhibition without damaging healthy cells. Thus CAP is a promising candidate for combination therapy especially for patients suffering from GBMs showing TMZ resistance.

Gliomas --- Cancer --- Brain --- Low temperature plasmas --- Treatment. --- Tumors --- Therapeutic use. --- Cold plasmas --- Plasmas, Low temperature --- Plasma (Ionized gases) --- Cerebrum --- Mind --- Central nervous system --- Head --- Cancer therapy --- Cancer treatment --- Nervous system --- Therapy --- Medical physics. --- Oncology. --- Medical and Radiation Physics. --- Cancer Research. --- Plasma Physics. --- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. --- Health physics --- Health radiation physics --- Medical radiation physics --- Radiotherapy physics --- Radiation therapy physics --- Biophysics --- Physics --- Radiation. --- Cancer research. --- Plasma (Ionized gases). --- Biophysics. --- Biological physics. --- Biological physics --- Biology --- Medical sciences --- Gaseous discharge --- Gaseous plasma --- Magnetoplasma --- Ionized gases --- Cancer research --- Radiology