Fusion Plasma Physics by Weston M. Stacey

By Weston M. Stacey

This revised and enlarged moment version of the preferred textbook and reference includes entire remedies of either the proven foundations of magnetic fusion plasma physics and of the newly constructing components of energetic study. It concludes with a glance forward to fusion energy reactors of the long run. The well-established issues of fusion plasma physics -- easy plasma phenomena, Coulomb scattering, drifts of charged debris in magnetic and electrical fields, plasma confinement by means of magnetic fields, kinetic and fluid collective plasma theories, plasma equilibria and flux floor geometry, plasma waves and instabilities, classical and neoclassical shipping, plasma-materials interactions, radiation, and so on. -- are totally built from first ideas via to the computational versions hired in smooth plasma physics.
the recent and rising themes of fusion plasma physics study -- fluctuation-driven plasma delivery and gyrokinetic/gyrofluid computational technique, the physics of the divertor, impartial atom recycling and delivery, impurity ion delivery, the physics of the plasma part (diffusive and non-diffusive delivery, MARFEs, ELMs, the L-H transition, thermal-radiative instabilities, shear suppression of shipping, speed spin-up), and so forth. -- are comprehensively constructed and with regards to the experimental proof. Operational limits at the functionality of destiny fusion reactors are built from plasma physics and engineering constraints, and conceptual designs of destiny fusion strength reactors are discussed.

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