| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 501 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Foreword; Contents; 1. Basic Concepts and Historical Background; 1.1 Space and Astrophysics; 1.2 World War II, Teller 1952; 1.3 Controlled Nuclear Fusion; 1.4 Magnetic Confinement Conditions for Nuclear Fusion; 1.5 Nature of Plasma Turbulence; 1.6 Breakthrough with Tokamak Confinement; 1.7 Confinement Records Set in Early Tokamaks; 1.7.1 First generation tokamaks: Ormak, PLT, Alcator, ATC and TFR; 1.7.2 TFTR and the D-T fusion plasmas; 1.7.3 Third-generation tokamaks with international growth; 1.8 JET Record Fusion Power Experiments; References; 2. Alfven and Drift Waves in Plasmas |
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2.1 Low-Frequency Wave Dispersion Relations2.2 Reduction of the Kinetic Dispersion Relation; 2.3 Drift Waves; 2.4 Kinetic Alfven Waves; 2.5 Coupling of the Drift Wave, Ion-Acoustic and Shear Alfven Waves; 2.5.1 Electrostatic drift waves; 2.6 Drift Wave Eigenmodes in a Sheared Magnetic Field; 2.7 Symmetries of the Drift Wave Eigenmodes; 2.8 Outgoing Wave Boundary Conditions; 2.8.1 Localized ion drift modes; 2.9 Ion Acoustic Wave Turbulence; 2.9.1 Electromagnetic scattering measurements of ion acoustic waves; 2.9.2 Laser scattering experiment in Helium plasma |
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2.9.3 Probe measurements of the two-point correlation functions2.9.4 Probe measurements of the spectrum and anomalous resistivity; 2.9.5 Drift wave spectral distributions; 2.9.6 Microwave scattering experiments in PLT; 2.10 Drift Waves and Transport in the TEXT Tokamak; 2.11 Drift Waves in Stellarators; References; 3. Mechanisms for Drift Waves; 3.1 Drift Wave Turbulence; 3.2 Drift Wave Mechanism; 3.3 Energy Bounds for Turbulence Amplitudes; 3.3.1 Density gradients; 3.3.2 Temperature gradients; 3.3.3 Drift wave eigenmodes in toroidal geometry |
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3.3.4 The effect of magnetic and Er shear on drift waves3.4 Weak Turbulence Theory for Drift Waves; 3.5 Ion Temperature Gradient Mode; 3.6 Drift Waves Paradigms: Hasegawa-Mima and Hasegawa-Wakatani Models; References; 4. Two-Component Magnetohydrodynamics; 4.1 Collisional Transport Equations; 4.2 Current, Density and Temperature Gradient Driven Drift Modes; 4.2.1 Ion acoustic waves and the thermal mode; 4.2.2 Ion temperature gradient instability; 4.3 Closure Models for Coupled Chain of Fluid Moments; 4.3.1 Closure models for the chain of the fluid moments |
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4.3.1.1 Examples of heat flux problem in fluid closures4.4 Pressure Gradient Driven Instabilities; 4.4.1 Scale invariance properties arising from an Ohm's law with electron inertia; 4.4.2 Scaling of correlation length and time; 4.4.3 Magnetic fiutter thermal transport; 4.4.4 Electron inertia Ohm's law; 4.5 Momentum Stress Tensor Stability Analysis; 4.6 Kinetic Ballooning Mode Instability; References; 5. Laboratory Experiments for Drift Waves; 5.1 Basic Laboratory Experiments for Drift Waves with Uniform Temperature Profiles; 5.2 Discovery of Drift Waves in Early Q-Machine Experiments |
| Summary |
The book explains how magnetized plasmas self-organize in states of electromagnetic turbulence that transports particles and energy out of the core plasma faster than anticipated by the fusion scientists designing magnetic confinement systems in the 20th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plasma turbulence.
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Plasma (Ionized gases)
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Transport theory.
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Fluctuations (Physics)
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Magnetohydrodynamics.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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Fluctuations (Physics)
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Magnetohydrodynamics
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Plasma (Ionized gases)
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Plasma turbulence
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Transport theory
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789814383547 |
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9814383546 |
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