Aspects Of Anomalous Transport In Plasmas

Author : Radu Balescu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 319 pages
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Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0750310308

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Aspects of Anomalous Transport in Plasmas by Radu Balescu Pdf

Anomalous transport is a ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysical, geophysical and laboratory plasmas; and is a key topic in controlled nuclear fusion research. Despite its fundamental importance and ongoing research interest, a full understanding of anomalous transport in plasmas is still incomplete, due to the complexity of the nonlinear phenomena involved. Aspects in Anomalous Transport in Plasmas is the first book to systematically consider anomalous plasma transport theory and provides a unification of the many theoretical models by emphasizing interrelations between seemingly different methodologies. It is not intended as a catalogue of the vast number of plasma instabilities leading to anomalous transport; instead it chooses a number of these and emphasizes the aspects specifically due to turbulence. After a brief introduction, the microscopic theory of turbulence is discussed, including quasilinear theory and various aspects of renormalization methods, which leads to an understanding of resonance broadening, mode coupling, trajectory correlation and clumps. The second half of the book is devoted to stochiastic tramsport, using methods based on the Langevin equations and on Random Walk theory. This treatment aims at going beyond the traditional limits of weak turbulence, by introducing the recently developed method of decorrelation trajectories, and its application to electrostatic turbulence, magnetic turbulence and zonal flow generation. The final chapter includes very recent work on the nonlocal transport phenomenon.

Author : Radu Balescu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420034685

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Aspects of Anomalous Transport in Plasmas by Radu Balescu Pdf

Anomalous transport is a ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysical, geophysical and laboratory plasmas; and is a key topic in controlled nuclear fusion research. Despite its fundamental importance and ongoing research interest, a full understanding of anomalous transport in plasmas is still incomplete, due to the complexity of the nonlinear phenomena involved. Aspects in Anomalous Transport in Plasmas is the first book to systematically consider anomalous plasma transport theory and provides a unification of the many theoretical models by emphasizing interrelations between seemingly different methodologies. It is not intended as a catalogue of the vast number of plasma instabilities leading to anomalous transport; instead it chooses a number of these and emphasizes the aspects specifically due to turbulence. After a brief introduction, the microscopic theory of turbulence is discussed, including quasilinear theory and various aspects of renormalization methods, which leads to an understanding of resonance broadening, mode coupling, trajectory correlation and clumps. The second half of the book is devoted to stochiastic tramsport, using methods based on the Langevin equations and on Random Walk theory. This treatment aims at going beyond the traditional limits of weak turbulence, by introducing the recently developed method of decorrelation trajectories, and its application to electrostatic turbulence, magnetic turbulence and zonal flow generation. The final chapter includes very recent work on the nonlocal transport phenomenon.

Author : William B. Pardo,Harry S. Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112602029

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Plasma Instabilities and Anomalous Transport by William B. Pardo,Harry S. Robertson Pdf

Author : T. Stringer,R. Pozzoli,E. Sindoni
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483139432

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Plasma Transport, Heating and MHD Theory by T. Stringer,R. Pozzoli,E. Sindoni Pdf

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.

Author : Satoshi Hamaguchi
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 048447569X

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Anomalous Transport Arising From Nonlinear Resistive Pressure-Driven Modes in a Plasma (Classic Reprint) by Satoshi Hamaguchi Pdf

Excerpt from Anomalous Transport Arising From Nonlinear Resistive Pressure-Driven Modes in a Plasma In this thesis, we will consider low-level or weak fluctuations or the fluctuations with small amplitude which vary on faster time scales and smaller spacial scales than the mean fields in a plasma. The fluctuations commonly observed in well confined plasmas are always weak, typically 11 of magnetic field fluctuations in tokamaks and 101 in reversed field pinches The steady convection or the saturated islands on a rational magnetic surface and plasma turbulence are examples of the weak fluctuations that we are particularly interested in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Eun-jin Kim
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783039211081

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Intermittency and Self-Organisation in Turbulence and Statistical Mechanics by Eun-jin Kim Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Intermittency and Self-Organisation in Turbulence and Statistical Mechanics that was published in Entropy

Author : Christos H. Skiadas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030044831

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Fractional Dynamics, Anomalous Transport and Plasma Science by Christos H. Skiadas Pdf

This book collects interrelated lectures on fractal dynamics, anomalous transport and various historical and modern aspects of plasma sciences and technology. The origins of plasma science in connection to electricity and electric charges and devices leading to arc plasma are explored in the first contribution by Jean-Marc Ginoux and Thomas Cuff. The second important historic connection with plasmas was magnetism and the magnetron. Victor J. Law and Denis P. Dowling, in the second contribution, review the history of the magnetron based on the development of thermionic diode valves and related devices. In the third chapter, Christos H Skiadas and Charilaos Skiadas present and apply diffusion theory and solution strategies to a number of stochastic processes of interest. Anomalous diffusion by the fractional Fokker-Planck equation and Lévy stable processes are studied by Johan Anderson and Sara Moradi in the fourth contribution. They consider the motion of charged particles in a 3-dimensional magnetic field in the presence of linear friction and of a stochastic electric field. Analysis of low-frequency instabilities in a low-temperature magnetized plasma is presented by Dan-Gheorghe Dimitriu, Maricel Agop in the fifth chapter. The authors refer to experimental results of the Innsbruck Q-machine and provide an analytical formulation of the related theory. In chapter six, Stefan Irimiciuc, Dan-Gheorghe Dimitriu, Maricel Agop propose a theoretical model to explain the dynamics of charged particles in a plasma discharge with a strong flux of electrons from one plasma structure to another. The theory and applications of fractional derivatives in many-particle disordered large systems are explored by Z.Z. Alisultanov, A.M. Agalarov, A.A. Potapov, G.B. Ragimkhanov. In chapter eight, Maricel Agop, Alina Gavrilut ̧ and Gabriel Crumpei explore the motion of physical systems that take place on continuous but non-differentiable curves (fractal curves). Finally in the last chapter S.L. Cherkas and V.L. Kalashnikov consider the perturbations of a plasma consisting of photons, baryons, and electrons in a linearly expanding (Milne-like) universe taking into account the metric tensor and vacuum perturbations.

Author : Sergei Krasheninnikov,Andrei Smolyakov,Andrei Kukushkin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030495947

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On the Edge of Magnetic Fusion Devices by Sergei Krasheninnikov,Andrei Smolyakov,Andrei Kukushkin Pdf

This book reviews the current state of understanding concerning edge plasma, which bridges hot fusion plasma, with a temperature of roughly one million degrees Kelvin with plasma-facing materials, which have melting points of only a few thousand degrees Kelvin. In a fact, edge plasma is one of the keys to solution for harnessing fusion energy in magnetic fusion devices. The physics governing the processes at work in the edge plasma involves classical and anomalous transport of multispecies plasma, neutral gas dynamics, atomic physics effects, radiation transport, plasma-material interactions, and even the transport of plasma species within the plasma-facing materials. The book starts with simple physical models, then moves on to rigorous theoretical considerations and state-of-the-art simulation tools that are capable of capturing the most important features of the edge plasma phenomena. The authors compare the conclusions arising from the theoretical and computational analysis with the available experimental data. They also discuss the remaining gaps in their models and make projections for phenomena related to edge plasma in magnetic fusion reactors.

Author : D. Grésillon,Marc A. Dubois
Publisher : L'Ecole Polytechnique
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fluctuations (Physics)
ISBN : 2730201483

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Turbulence and Anomalous Transport in Magnetized Plasmas by D. Grésillon,Marc A. Dubois Pdf

Author : Vitalii D. Shafranov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540745761

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Reviews of Plasma Physics by Vitalii D. Shafranov Pdf

This book presents two reviews from the cutting-edge of Russian plasma physics research. The first review is devoted to the mechanisms of transverse conductivity and generation of self-consistent electric fields in strongly ionized magnetized plasma. The second review considers numerous aspects of turbulent transport in plasma and fluids. This second review is focused on scaling arguments for describing anomalous diffusion in the presence of complex structures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:30000006324614

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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by Anonim Pdf

Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Author : Hai-Bin Tang,Thomas M. York
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780443137006

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Introduction to Plasmas and Plasma Dynamics by Hai-Bin Tang,Thomas M. York Pdf

Introduction to Plasmas and Plasma Dynamics: With Plasma Physics Applications to Space Propulsion, Magnetic Fusion and Space Physics, Second Edition provides an accessible introduction to the understanding of high temperature, ionized gases necessary to conduct research and develop applications related to plasmas. Thoroughly updated and expanded, this sec Describes plasma applications with close reference to elementary processes, promoting a deeper understanding of plasmas in new fields Provides structured problems in every chapter that help readers grasp the book’s practical lessons Includes a new chapter on numerical methods in plasmas that adds crucial context for experimental approaches

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08
Category : Power resources
ISBN : PSU:000052606366

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Energy Research Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Controlled fusion
ISBN : UOM:39015033685382

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Fusion Energy Update by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1976-02
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : PSU:000047758872

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Nuclear Science Abstracts by Anonim Pdf