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This monograph describes plasma physics for magnetic confinement of high temperature plasmas in nonaxisymmetric toroidal magnetic fields or stellarators. The techniques are aimed at controlling nuclear fusion for continuous energy production. While the focus is on the nonaxisymmetric toroidal field, or heliotron, developed at Kyoto University, the physics applies equally to other stellarators and axisymmetric tokamaks. The author covers all aspects of magnetic confinement, formation of magnetic surfaces, magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability, single charged particle confinement, neoclassical transport and plasma heating. He also reviews recent experiments and the prospects for the next generation of devices.
Plasma Physics - Basic Theory with Fusion Applications presents a thorough treatment of plasma physics, beginning at an introductory level and including an extensive discussion of its applications in thermonuclear fusion research. The physics of fusion plasmas is explained mainly in relation to recent progress in tokamak research, but other plasma confinement schemes, such as stellarators and inertial confinement, are alsodescribed. The unique and systematic presentation will help readers to understand the overall structure of plasma theory and will faciliate access to more advanced literature on specialist topics. Numerous problems will assist the students in mastering the text.
This book presents a thorough treatment of plasma physics, beginning at an introductory level and proceeding to an extensive discussion of its applications in thermonuclear fusion research. The physics of fusion plasmas is explained mainly in relation to recent progress in tokamak research, but other plasma confinement schemes, such as stellarators and inertial confinement, are also described. The unique and systematic presentation will help readers to understand the overall structure of plasma theory.
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1. Prof. Masahiro Wakatani and fusion research in his days / K. Itoh. Magnetic relaxation and self-organization in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. 2. An introduction to mean field dynamo theory / D. W. Hughes and S. M. Tobias. 3. Origin, structure and stability of astrophysical MHD jets / P.-Y. Longaretti -- Turbulence and turbulent transport - the agents of relaxation and structure formation. 4. A tutorial on basic concepts in MHD turbulence and turbulent transport / P. H. Diamond, S.-I. Itoh and K. Itoh. 5. Intermittency like phenomena in plasma turbulence / A. Das, P. Kaw and R. Jha. 6. Nonlinear cascades and spatial structure of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence / W.-C. Müller and R. Grappin. 7. Scale covariance and scale-ratio covariance in turbulent front propagation / A. Pocheau -- Transport bifurcations and relaxation. 8. Transport barrier relaxations in tokamak edge plasmas / P. Beyer. 9. Dynamics of edge localized modes / X. Garbet ... [et al.]. 10. On the onset of collapse events in toroidal plasmas turbulence trigger / K. Itoh ... [et al.].
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Presents the papers from a conference, the purpose of which was to advance the understanding of the transport of heat across magnetic fields in high temperature plasmas by presenting the latest theoretical, computational and experimental results for ion temperature gradient driven transport.