Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma Physics

Author : Linjin Zheng
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781643271385

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Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma Physics by Linjin Zheng Pdf

This book describes the ideal magnetohydrodynamic theory for magnetically conned fusion plasmas. Advanced topics are presented in attempting to fill the gap between the up-to-date research developments and plasma physics textbooks. Nevertheless, they are self contained and trackable with the mathematical treatments detailed and underlying physics explained. Both analytical theories and numerical schemes are given. Besides the current research developments in this field, the future prospects are also discussed. Nowadays, it is believed that, if the ideal MHD theory predicts major instabilities, none of the magnetic confinements of fusion plasmas can survive. The author has also written the book Advanced Tokamak Stability Theory. In view of its importance, the MHD theory is further systematically elaborated in this book. The conventional ideal MHD framework is reviewed together with the newly developed multi-parallel-fluid MHD theory. The MHD equilibrium theory and code are described with the non-letter-'X' separatrix feature pointed out. The continuum modes, quasi-modes, phase mixing, and Alfven resonance heating are analysed. The analytical theories for MHD stability in tokamak configurations are systematically presented, such as the interchange, peeling, ballooning, toroidal Alfven modes, and kink type of modes. The global stability computations are also addressed, including resistive wall modes, error-field amplifications, and Alfven modes, etc.

Author : Linjin Zheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0750335769

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Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma Physics, Volume 2 by Linjin Zheng Pdf

This book focuses on the multifluid theory in the field of magnetically confined plasma physics. It is an advanced review on the state-of-the-art theory and application of magnetically confined plasma physics.

Author : Weston M. Stacey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527629327

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Fusion by Weston M. Stacey Pdf

This second edition of a popular textbook is thoroughly revised with around 25% new and updated content. It provides an introduction to both plasma physics and fusion technology at a level that can be understood by advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the physical sciences and related engineering disciplines. As such, the contents cover various plasma confinement concepts, the support technologies needed to confine the plasma, and the designs of ITER as well as future fusion reactors. With end of chapter problems for use in courses.

Author : Jan Weiland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461437437

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Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems by Jan Weiland Pdf

Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems provides an advanced introduction to the fields of stability and transport in tokamaks. It serves as a reference for researchers with its highly-detailed theoretical background, and contains new results in the areas of analytical nonlinear theory of transport using kinetic theory and fluid closure. The use of fluid descriptions for advanced stability and transport problems provide the reader with a better understanding of this topic. In addition, the areas of nonlinear kinetic theory and fluid closure gives the researcher the basic knowledge of a highly relevant area to the present development of transport physics.

Author : C.M. Braams,P.E. Stott
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420033786

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Nuclear Fusion by C.M. Braams,P.E. Stott Pdf

Fusion research started over half a century ago. Although the task remains unfinished, the end of the road could be in sight if society makes the right decisions. Nuclear Fusion: Half a Century of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research is a careful, scholarly account of the course of fusion energy research over the past fifty years. The authors outline the different paths followed by fusion research from initial ignorance to present understanding. They explore why a particular scheme would not work and why it was more profitable to concentrate on the mainstream tokamak development. The book features descriptive sections, in-depth explanations of certain physical and technical issues, scientific terms, and an extensive glossary that explains relevant abbreviations and acronyms.

Author : R. D. Hazeltine,J. D. Meiss
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486151038

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Plasma Confinement by R. D. Hazeltine,J. D. Meiss Pdf

Graduate-level text examines the essential physics underlying international research in magnetic confinement fusion with accounts of fundamental concepts behind methods of confining plasma at or near thermonuclear conditions. 1992 edition.

Author : Linjin Zheng
Publisher : IOP Publishing Limited
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0750335734

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Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma Physics, Volume 2: Multifluid Theory by Linjin Zheng Pdf

This book focuses on the multifluid theory in the field of magnetically confined plasma physics. It is an advanced review on the state-of-the-art theory and application of magnetically confined plasma physics.

Author : Weston M. Stacey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39076006296250

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Fusion Plasma Analysis by Weston M. Stacey Pdf

Deals with the physics of magnetically-confined fusion plasmas. Plasma physics is treated as an element in the development of fusion power, with important technological constraints and interactions being included in the analysis. Development of the material starts from the first principles and is carried through to an engineering physics formulation that can be applied to the analysis of fusion reactor plasmas.

Author : Edward Teller
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323146616

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Fusion Part B by Edward Teller Pdf

Fusion, Volume I: Magnetic Confinement, Part B is the second of the two-part volume that covers the complexity and application of controlled magnetic fusion. This part is composed of nine chapters and begins with a description of the heating methods, equilibrium, and stability of linear magnetic fusion systems. The next chapters deal with the principles, configuration, and application of high-beta stellarator, fast-linear-compression fusion systems, and ELMO Bumpy torus, as well as the magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas. These topics are followed by discussions of the neutral-beam injection; the regimes of radio-frequency heating of magnetically confined plasma; and the performance requirements of magnetic fusion reactors. The final chapters describe the basic processes in the fusion-fission fuel factory and some basic considerations for advanced-fuel reactors. This book will be of great value to physicists, physics students, and researchers.

Author : Sadrilla Abdullaev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319018904

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Magnetic Stochasticity in Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas by Sadrilla Abdullaev Pdf

This is the first book to systematically consider the modern aspects of chaotic dynamics of magnetic field lines and charged particles in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. The analytical models describing the generic features of equilibrium magnetic fields and magnetic perturbations in modern fusion devices are presented. It describes mathematical and physical aspects of onset of chaos, generic properties of the structure of stochastic magnetic fields, transport of charged particles in tokamaks induced by magnetic perturbations, new aspects of particle turbulent transport, etc. The presentation is based on the classical and new unique mathematical tools of Hamiltonian dynamics, like the action--angle formalism, classical perturbation theory, canonical transformations of variables, symplectic mappings, the Poincaré-Melnikov integrals. They are extensively used for analytical studies as well as for numerical simulations of magnetic field lines, particle dynamics, their spatial structures and statistical properties. The numerous references to articles on the latest development in the area are provided. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers who interested in the modern problems of magnetic stochasticity in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. It is also useful for physicists and mathematicians interested in new methods of Hamiltonian dynamics and their applications.

Author : ZHENG,Linjin (University of Texas at Austin Zheng, USA)
Publisher : IOP ebooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 075033777X

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Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma Phhb by ZHENG,Linjin (University of Texas at Austin Zheng, USA) Pdf

Author : Edward Teller
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323147804

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Fusion Part A by Edward Teller Pdf

Fusion, Volume I: Magnetic Confinement, Part A is the first of the two-part volume that covers the complexity and application of controlled magnetic fusion. This book is divided into seven chapters and starts with a brief historical overview and some properties of controlled fusion. The subsequent chapters deal with the principles, thermodynamic stability, and configuration of Tokamak plasma. These topics are followed by discussions of the variations and application of stellarators; the concepts of mirror theory; and the establishment of the experimental basis of the mirror-confinement physics. The last chapter focuses on the principles, configuration, and application of the reversed-field pinch. This book will prove useful to physicists, physics students, and researchers.

Author : Weston M. Stacey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527411344

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Fusion Plasma Physics by Weston M. Stacey Pdf

This revised and enlarged second edition of the popular textbook and reference contains comprehensive treatments of both the established foundations of magnetic fusion plasma physics and of the newly developing areas of active research. It concludes with a look ahead to fusion power reactors of the future. The well-established topics of fusion plasma physics -- basic plasma phenomena, Coulomb scattering, drifts of charged particles in magnetic and electric fields, plasma confinement by magnetic fields, kinetic and fluid collective plasma theories, plasma equilibria and flux surface geometry, plasma waves and instabilities, classical and neoclassical transport, plasma-materials interactions, radiation, etc. -- are fully developed from first principles through to the computational models employed in modern plasma physics. The new and emerging topics of fusion plasma physics research -- fluctuation-driven plasma transport and gyrokinetic/gyrofluid computational methodology, the physics of the divertor, neutral atom recycling and transport, impurity ion transport, the physics of the plasma edge (diffusive and non-diffusive transport, MARFEs, ELMs, the L-H transition, thermal-radiative instabilities, shear suppression of transport, velocity spin-up), etc. -- are comprehensively developed and related to the experimental evidence. Operational limits on the performance of future fusion reactors are developed from plasma physics and engineering constraints, and conceptual designs of future fusion power reactors are discussed.

Author : Roscoe B White
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783263653

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The Theory of Toroidally Confined Plasmas by Roscoe B White Pdf

This graduate level textbook develops the theory of magnetically confined plasma, with the aim of bringing the reader to the level of current research in the field of thermonuclear fusion. It begins with the basic concepts of magnetic field description, plasma equilibria and stability, and goes on to derive the equations for guiding center particle motion in an equilibrium field. Topics include linear and nonlinear ideal and resistive modes and particle transport. It is of use to workers in the field of fusion both for its wide-ranging account of tokamak physics and as a kind of handbook or formulary. This edition has been extended in a number of ways. The material on mode-particle interactions has been reformulated and much new information added, including methodology for Monte Carlo implementation of mode destabilization. These results give explicit means of carrying out mode destabilization analysis, in particular for the dangerous fishbone mode. A new chapter on cyclotron motion in toroidal geometry has been added, with comparisons of the analysis of resonances using guiding center results. A new chapter on the use of lithium lined walls has been added, a promising means of lowering the complexity and cost of full scale fusion reactors. A section on nonlocal transport has been added, including an analysis of Levy flight simulations of ion transport in the reversed field pinch in Padova, RFX.

Author : Mitsuru Kikuchi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781849964111

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Frontiers in Fusion Research by Mitsuru Kikuchi Pdf

Frontiers in Fusion Research provides a systematic overview of the latest physical principles of fusion and plasma confinement. It is primarily devoted to the principle of magnetic plasma confinement, that has been systematized through 50 years of fusion research. Frontiers in Fusion Research begins with an introduction to the study of plasma, discussing the astronomical birth of hydrogen energy and the beginnings of human attempts to harness the Sun’s energy for use on Earth. It moves on to chapters that cover a variety of topics such as: • charged particle motion, • plasma kinetic theory, • wave dynamics, • force equilibrium, and • plasma turbulence. The final part of the book describes the characteristics of fusion as a source of energy and examines the current status of this particular field of research. Anyone with a grasp of basic quantum and analytical mechanics, especially physicists and researchers from a range of different backgrounds, may find Frontiers in Fusion Research an interesting and informative guide to the physics of magnetic confinement.