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Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
ISBN:
9789401096553
Sprache:
Englisch
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,
online resource
Ausgabe:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
DDC:
50
Schlagwort(e):
Science (General)
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1. Introduction1.1 Nature and occurrence of plasmas -- 1.2 Controlled nuclear fusion -- 1.3 Fluid and kinetic descriptions of a plasma -- 1.4 The Debye length -- 2. Motion of a charged particle -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Motion in a uniform magnetic field -- 2.3 Guiding centre drifts -- 2.4 Adiabatic invariants: the magnetic moment -- 2.5 The magnetization current -- 2.6 Some applications -- Problems -- 3. Low-frequency phenomena -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Magnetohydrodynamics -- 3.3 MHD equilibria -- 3.4 Stability of MHD equilibria -- 3.5 MHD waves -- 3.6 Coulomb collisions -- 3.7 The Fokker-Plank equation -- 3.8 Relation between kinetic and fluid theories -- 3.9 Transport coefficients -- Problems -- 4. Waves -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The two-fluid equations -- 4.3 Waves in a cold plasma -- 4.4 Wave energy density -- 4.5 Waves in an inhomogeneous plasma -- 4.6 Cut-off and resonance -- 4.7 Propagation of electron cyclotron waves in a tokamak -- 4.8 Tunnelling and resonant absorption -- Problems -- 5. Kinetic theory of waves -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Vlasov equation -- 5.3 The linearized Vlasov equation and Landau damping -- 5.4 The plasma dispersion function -- 5.5 Ion sound waves -- 5.6 Waves in a magnetized plasma -- 5.7 Bernstein modes -- 5.8 Cyclotron damping -- 5.9 Microinstabilities -- 5.10 Absolute and convective instabilities -- Problems -- 6. Nonlinear effects -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Quasilinear theory -- 6.3 Wave-wave interactions -- 6.4 Parametric instabilities -- 6.5 The ponderomotive force -- 6.6 Modulation and filamentation -- 6.7 Computational methods-fluid codes -- 6.8 Computational methods-particle codes -- 6.9 Concluding remarks -- Problems -- 7. Diagnostic techniques -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Probes -- 7.3 Radiation emission -- 7.4 Radiation scattering and interferometry -- 7.5 Particle measurements -- Problems -- 8. Application to fusion and space research -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Tokamaks and other toroidal devices -- 8.3 Other magnetic confinement systems -- 8.4 Inertial confinement -- 8.5 The Earth’s magnetosphere -- 8.6 The physics of the Sun and stars -- 8.7 Pulsars -- 8.8 Cosmic ray acceleration -- 8.9 Plasma physics applied to particle accelerators -- 8.10 Conclusion -- Further reading.
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-010-9655-3
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