Plasma physics for nuclear fusion
Abstract
The book focuses on the properties of gaseous plasmas needed in the attainment of controlled fusion reactions. The first five chapters develop the fundamentals of plasma physics and present the conditions of nuclear fusion reactions. The next four provide a magnetohydrodynamic description of plasmas, followed by four chapters that explain wave phenomena and instabilities by means of a kinetic model. The three final chapters deal with the problems of heating, diagnostics, and confinement.
- Publication:
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Cambridge
- Pub Date:
- 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980mit..book.....M
- Keywords:
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- Controlled Fusion;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Control;
- Plasma Equilibrium;
- Plasma Heating;
- Plasma Physics;
- Reactor Design;
- Coulomb Collisions;
- Energy Technology;
- High Temperature Plasmas;
- Ionized Gases;
- Mathematical Models;
- Plasma Diagnostics;
- Plasma Diffusion;
- Plasma Dynamics;
- Plasma Waves;
- Reaction Kinetics;
- Plasma Physics