Plasma Physics And Plasma Instabilities A Handbook For Physicists And Engineers

Plasma Physics and Plasma Instabilities. A Handbook for Physicists and Engineers

This is the sixth partial delivery of an Engineer's Handbook on plasma instabilities and their use, control, stabilization and engineering application. The book will be necessary for design and feasibility studies of thermonuclear fusion and other plasma engineering devices. The sixth partial delivery presents chapter 8 (Plasma Containment). It covers the following sections: 8.1 Classification of containment systems; 8.2 Self-containment and the pinch-effect; 8.3 Magnetohydrostatics and magnetic surfaces; 8.4 Two-dimensional equilibria; 8.5 Toroidal equilibria; 8.6 Tokamaks and high beta systems; 8.7 Containment in Vlasov and CGL theories.

Handbook on Plasma Instabilities

Handbook on Plasma Instabilities, Volume 2 consists of four chapters on plasma instabilities. Chapter 14 discusses the various aspects of microinstabilities. Beam-plasma systems are covered in Chapter 15, while the various stabilization methods are presented in Chapter 16. This book concludes with deliberations on parametric effects in Chapter 17. Other topics discussed include the microinstabilities of a homogeneous unmagnetized plasma; kinetic theory of macroscopic instabilities; basic beam physics; and beam-plasma instabilities. The magnetic field configuration stabilization; macroscopic nonmagnetic stabilization methods; parametric instabilities in homogeneous unmagnetized plasmas; and parametric effects in bounded and inhomogeneous plasmas are also elaborated in this text. This publication is beneficial to students and researchers conducting work on unstable plasma.

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