Theory of Tokamak Plasmas


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This is a graduate textbook on tokamak physics, designed to provide a basic introduction to plasma equilibrium, particle orbits, transport, and those ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities which dominate the behavior of a tokamak discharge, and to develop the mathematical methods necessary for their theoretical analysis.




Tokamaks


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The tokamak is the principal tool in controlled fusion research. This book acts as an introduction to the subject and a basic reference for theory, definitions, equations, and experimental results. The fourth edition has been completely revised, describing their development of tokamaks to the point of producing significant fusion power.




Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems


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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.







Fusion Energy Update


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Theory and Simulation of Fishbone-type Instabilities in Beam-heated Tokamaks


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Energetic trapped particles are shown to introduce a new unstable solution to the internal kink and ballooning modes in tokamaks. Both the real frequencies and growth rates of the instabilities are comparable to the trapped-particle precession frequency. Simulations including the excitation and particle-loss mechanisms of the internal kink mode are found to reproduce essential features of the fishbones. Furthermore, the energetic trapped particle-induced ballooning modes are shown to be consistent with the associated high-frequency oscillations observed experimentally. Several possible stabilizing schemes are considered.