Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems provides an advanced introduction to the fields of stability and transport in tokamaks. It serves as a reference for researchers with its highly-detailed theoretical background, and contains new results in the areas of analytical nonlinear theory of transport using kinetic theory and fluid closure. The use of fluid descriptions for advanced stability and transport problems provide the reader with a better understanding of this topic.
In addition, the areas of nonlinear kinetic theory and fluid closure gives the researcher the basic knowledge of a highly relevant area to the present development of transport physics.
Author(s): Jan Weiland (auth.)
Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 71
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 230
Tags: Plasma Physics;Nuclear Fusion;Nuclear Energy;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Different Ways of Describing Plasma Dynamics....Pages 11-26
Fluid Description for Low Frequency Perturbations in an Inhomogeneous Plasma....Pages 27-56
Kinetic Description of Low Frequency Modes in Inhomogeneous Plasma....Pages 57-81
Kinetic Descriptions of Low Frequency Modes Obtained by Gyroaveraging....Pages 83-100
Low Frequency Modes in Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields....Pages 101-180
Transport, Overview and Recent Developments....Pages 181-190
Instabilities Associated with Fast Particles in Toroidal Confinement Systems....Pages 191-198
Nonlinear Theory....Pages 199-217
Back Matter....Pages 219-227
