Plasma Theory An Advanced Guide for Graduate Students
This textbook, based on the author’s classroom-tested lecture course, helps graduate students master the advanced plasma theory needed to unlock results at the forefront of current research. It is structured around a two semester course, beginning with kinetic theory and transport processes, while t...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2023, 2023
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Plasma Kinetics
- Chapter 2. Transport equations
- Chapter 3. Quasineutral plasma and sheath structure
- Chapter 4. Diffusion in partially ionized unmagnetized plasma
- Chapter 5. Diffusion of partially ionized magnetized plasma
- Chapter 6. Partially ionized plasma with current
- Chapter 7. Transport in strongly ionized plasma across a magnetic field
- Chapter 8. Drift waves and turbulent transport
- Chapter 9. Dynamics of fully ionized plasma in the absence of a magnetic field
- Chapter 10. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
- Chapter 11. Dynamics of plasma blobs and jets in a magnetic field
- Chapter 12. Plasma equilibrium
- Chapter 13. Transport phenomena in tokamaks
- Chapter 14. Instabilities in magnetized plasma
- Chapter 15. Magnetic islands and stochastic magnetic field
- Chapter 16. Improved confinement regime (H-mode)