New developments in the application of the method of moments in Plasma Physics

This review article is based on a number of our research papers complemented by some mathematical developments which are usually not included to texts in Physics, and which can permit a reader to enter into the details of the self-consistent method of moments, recently suggested, and understand how it could be improved even further. The idea of the method of moments which appeared some 35 years ago is to employ several sum rules and other exact relations to determine the dynamic properties of strongly coupled classical or partially degenerate plasmas. Now this approach is complemented by new empirical and mathematical observations which permit to determine dynamic characteristics of strongly coupled completely ionized classical one-component plasmas without any data input from simulations or direct experiments and express the dynamic properties of the above systems entirely in terms of their static characteristics like the static structure factors. The obtained results are quite satisfactory and promising.