Plasma Transport, Heating and MHD Theory

Plasma Transport, Heating and MHD Theory provides information pertinent to the theory of plasma transport, heating, and MHD. This book describes the resistive steady states of elliptical cross-section plasmas.

Organized into five parts encompassing 28 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the effects due to instabilities excited in the low-density regime of tokamaks by runaway electrons via the cyclotron resonance. This text then examines the formulation of transport theory, which is applied to transport in tokamak due to trapped-particle instabilities in the quasi-linear stage. Other chapters consider the stability of the boundary regions of gas insulated plasmas. This book discusses as well the zero-dimensional or point model of the Elmo Bumpy Torus (EBT) experiment in which spatial dependences are eliminated by replacing all plasma gradients by characteristic scale lengths equal to the plasma minor radius. The final chapter deals with anomalous transport theory.

This book is a valuable resource for plasma physicists.

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Foreword
Introductory Talk
Modes & Instabilities
Electrons of High Perpendicular Energy in the Low-Density Regime of Tokamaks
Modulational Instability in a Magnetic Field
Non-Thermal Emission at the Plasma Frequency
Asymptotic Theory of Dissipative Trapped Electron Mode Overlapping Many Rational Surfaces
Nonlinear Stabilization of Drift Waves
MHD Theory, Transport Phenomena and Codes
The Makokot Simulation Code
Theory of Anomalous Transport Due to Electrostatic Fluctuations
Quasi-Linear Theory of Heat Flow and Diffusion in a Tokamak
Quasi-Linear Theory of a Toroidal Plasma in the Slide-Away Regime
Resistive Steady States of Elliptical Cross-Section Plasmas
Integral Invariants and Quasi-MHD Nonlinear Dissipation
MHD Stability for a Spherator with a Purely Poloidal Magnetic Field
Heating
RF-Heating in Stationary Systems
Lower Hybrid Resonance Heating
Magneto-Acoustic Resonance Heating in the Ion-Cyclotron Frequency Domain
Wave Propagation and Absorption near the Electron-Cyclotron Layer in the THOR Device
Stochastic Heating of an Ion Beam by Lower Hybrid Waves
Heating of Thermonuclear Toroidal Plasmas
Conclusions on RF Heating Contributions Presented at the Varenna International School of Plasma Physics 1977
Blanket
On the Stability of Low Frequency Current Driven Modes in the Boundary Layers of Gas Insulated Plasmas
Experimental Results on the Erasmus Tokamak
Experiments in the FOM-Instituut voor Plasmafysica at Jutphaas, The Netherlands
Prevision of the Plasma Parameters and Regimes in the Thor Tokamak
Joule Current Inhibition in the Heliotron D Device
Heliotron E Project
Plasma Physics Research at the Australian National University
Point Model Calculations of EBT Performance
Status Report on the FT Tokamak
Concluding Discussions on Workshop
List of Participants
Subject Index