Advanced Tokamak stability theory
Başlık:
Advanced Tokamak stability theory
Yazar:
Zheng, Linjin, author.
ISBN:
9781627054232
9781627057387
9781627054225
Ek Yazar:
Fiziksel Tanım:
1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
Series:
IOP concise physics,
IOP concise physics.
General Note:
"Version: 20150301"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author biography
Tokamak MHD equilibrium -- The Grad-Shafranov equation -- Toroidal flux coordinates -- The tokamak force balance : the hoop force
Ideal MHD instabilities -- The global MHD spectrum -- Internal and external global MHD modes -- Radially localized modes : the Mercier criterion -- The ballooning modes and ballooning representation -- The peeling and free boundary ballooning modes -- The toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes -- The kinetically driven MHD modes -- Discussion
Resistive MHD instabilities -- The resistive MHD theory of Glasser, Greene and Johnson -- The resistive MHD ballooning modes -- The tearing mode and its coupling to interchange-type modes -- Discussion : neoclassical tearing modes, etc.
Gyrokinetic theory -- The general gyrokinetic formalism and equilibrium -- The electrostatic gyrokinetic equation -- Electrostatic drift waves -- The electromagnetic gyrokinetic equation -- FLR effects on the interchange modes -- The kinetic ballooning mode theory -- Discussion
Physical interpretations of experimental observations -- The tokamak confinement modes -- Enhanced electron transport -- Transport barriers -- Nonlocal transport -- The edge localized modes -- Blob transport -- Edge harmonic oscillations
Concluding remarks -- Appendix A. Derivation of the gyrokinetics equations -- The first harmonic solution of the gyrokinetic equation -- The gyrophase-averaged gyrokinetic equation -- The gyrokinetic vorticity equation
Abstract:
This book describes the advanced stability theories for magnetically confined fusion plasmas, especially in tokamaks. As the fusion plasma sciences advance, the gap between the textbooks and cutting-edge researches gradually develops. This book fills in this gap. It focuses on the advanced topics such as the spectrum of magnetohydrodynamics in tokamaks, the interchange modes, ballooning modes, and toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes, etc. in the toroidal geometry. The theories are laid out in parallel with the ideal, resistive magnetohydrodynamics and gyrokinetics formalisms.
Reading Level:
Nuclear and plasma physicists and researchers.
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Electronic Access:
http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-1-6270-5423-2