The book, Kinetic Alfven Wave: Theory, Experiment, and Application (by Prof. Wu Dejin, ISBN 978-7-03-036124-0), was recently published by Science Press. The related work was supported by the National Fund for Academic Publication in Science and Technology.

Kinetic Alfven waves (KAWs) are short-scale and dispersive Alfven waves, and were found by Chen and Hasegawa in 1970's. Due to the possible role played in plasma heating and particle acceleration, KAWs have been extensively applied to the fusion plasma heating and to auroral electron acceleration in the Earth's ionosphere. The development of the technology in plasma measurements promotes the studies of KAWs in laboratory experiments and space observations. A series of significant progress has been made in this field, and some early theoretical predictions have been confirmed, which attracts much attention of researchers in the laboratory, solar and space plasma fields.

This book "is the first to present a comprehensive understanding of KAWs, including their basic physical characteristics, excitation and generation mechanisms, and one- and two-dimensional nonlinear structures", and also to introduce some latest research results of the terrestrial auroral electron acceleration, the inhomogeneous heating of magneto-plasma structures in the solar corona, and the anomalous heating of minor heavy ions in the extended solar corona. Prof. Yuriy M. Voitenko (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy) believed that the book will fill the gap in the lack of books on KAWs and the wave-related phenomena in the last twenty years.