The Theory of Toroidally Confined Plasmas

Download or read book The Theory of Toroidally Confined Plasmas written by Roscoe B White and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001-07-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book is designed to provide a basic introduction to plasma equilibrium, particle orbits, transport, and those ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities which dominate the behavior of toroidal magnetically confined plasmas, and to develop the mathematical methods necessary for their theoretical analysis. The book deals primarily with the consequences of ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics, these theories being responsible for most of what is well understood regarding the physics of fusion oriented discharges. Contents:Toroidal Configuration: EquilibriumGuiding Center MotionLinear Ideal ModesLinear Resistive ModesNonlinear BehaviorMode-Particle InteractionTransportPhase Integral Methods Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in the field of fusion.