Fusion Plasma Physics

Nuclear fusion, mankind’s ultimate energy source, may become the most important energy source of the new century. But still many important phenomena, e.g. the transport mechanisms that determine the confinement of the plasma, are not yet fully understood. Thus, they are the subject of intense research, which drives a rapid environment of this field of plasma physics and generates the need for an up–to–date textbook for students and reference for researchers in the field.
This state–of–the–art textbook assembles material from various sources in a systematic and concise way for a modern course on the physics of magnetically confined plasmas aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It both presents the fundamental theories and methodologies of fusion plasma physics and introduces the topics of current research. Each chapter is rounded off with a set of exercises.


Spis treści:
1. Basic Physics.
2. Motion of Charged Particles.
3. Magnetic Confinement.
4. Kinetic Theory.
5. Fluid Theory.
6. Plasma Equilibria.
7. Waves.
8. Instabilities.
9. Neoclassical Transport.
10. Plasma Rotation.
11. Turbulent Transport.
12. Heating and Current Drive.
13. Plasma–Material Interactions.
14. Divertors.
15. Plasma Edge.
16. Neutral Particle Transport.
17. Power Balance.
18. Operational Limits.
19. Fusion Reactors and Neutron Sources.
Appendix A: Frequently Used Physical Constants.
Appendix B: Dimensions and Units.
Appendix C: Vector Calculus.
Appendix D: Curvilinear Coordinates.
Appendix E: Plasma Formulas.
Appendix F: Further Reading.
Appendix G: Attributions.
Subject Index. 

Nota biograficzna:
Professor Weston Stacey received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He then worked in naval reactor design at Knolls Ato mic Power Laboratory and led the fast reactor theory and computations and the fusion research programs at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1977, he became Callaway Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching and performing research in reactor physics and plasma physics. He is the author of six books and about 250 research papers. He led the international INTOR Workshop which defined the design features and R&D needs for the first fusion experimental reactor, for which he received the US Dept. of Energy Distinguished Associate Award. Professor Stacey is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and of the American Physical Society and is the recipient of, among other awards, the Seaborg Award for Nuclear Research and the Wigner Reactor Physics Award from the American Nuclear Society.

Okładka tylna:
Nuclear fusion, mankind’s ultimate energy source, may become the most important energy source of the new century. But still many important phenomena, e.g. the transport mechanisms that determine the confinement of the plasma, are not yet fully understood. Thus, they are the subject of intense research, which drives a rapid environment of this field of plasma physics and generates the need for an up–to–date textbook for students and reference for researchers in the field.
This state–of–the–art textbook assembles material from various sources in a systematic and concise way for a modern course on the physics of magnetically confined plasmas aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It both presents the fundamental theories and methodologies of fusion plasma physics and introduces the topics of current research. Each chapter is rounded off with a set of exercises.