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1 online resource (191 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Why fusion?; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; The importance of words and of formulae; The vocabulary of fusion plasma science; PART 1: FUSION IN THE COSMOS; 1: Plasmas; 1.1 The secrets of plasmas; 1.2 Plasma physics peculiarities and games; 2: Nuclear fusion; 2.1 Nuclear fusion reactions; 2.2 Nuclear fusion plasmas; 3: The cosmos; 3.1 Fusion in the cosmos; 3.2 How it all began ... ; 3.3 Galaxies and stars; 3.4 The Sun's metabolism; 4: The plasma universe; 4.1 Around the Sun; 4.1.1 The magnetoplasma revolution |
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4.1.2 The challenge of space plasma exploration4.1.3 Cosmic plasma jets; 4.1.4 The all-pervasive Alfvén wave; 4.1.5 The dynamic face of the Sun; 4.1.6 Solar flares and prominences; 4.1.7 Comets; 4.2 The Sun-Earth interplay; 4.2.1 The solar wind; 4.2.2 The Earth's magnetosphere; 4.2.3 The ionosphere; 4.2.4 Auroras; 4.3 Beyond the Sun; 4.3.1 Supernovas; 4.3.2 Pulsars: lighthouses of the cosmos; 4.3.3 Quasars; 5: Electrical discharges; 5.1 Applications of plasmas; PART 2: FUSION ON EARTH; 6: Dynamic fine structure of plasmas; 6.1 Modelling as a tool for interpretation and prediction |
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6.2 Waves and instabilities6.3 Nonlinear effects; 6.4 Three-wave interaction; 6.5 Evolution of populations: explosive instabilities; 6.6 Vortices; 6.7 Wavelets and turbulence; 6.8 From fine structure to global dynamics of fusion plasmas; 7: The art of magnetic confinement; 7.1 The principle of magnetic confinement; 7.2 Fusion energy generation and self-sustained fusion; 7.3 The architecture of magnetic confinement; 7.4 History of alternative concepts; 7.5 Stellarators and tokamaks; 8: Microballoon explosions by lasers: inertial confinement; 8.1 The principle of inertial confinement |
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8.2 Instabilities8.3 The concepts of direct and indirect drive; 8.4 Laser fusion; 8.5 Ion beam drivers; 9: The fusion reactor; 9.1 Reactor requirements; 9.2 Reactor design; 9.3 Heating and confinement; 10: Outlook into the future; Conclusions-the great fusion plant; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Glossary; Short fusion-plasma dictionary; Subject index; Character index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781482268669 |
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1482268663 |
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