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Plasma Physics and Fusion Plasma Electrodynamics

Abraham Bers

Abstract

This book covers collective and single particle dynamics of plasmas for fully ionized as well as partially ionized plasmas. Many aspects of plasma physics in current fusion energy generation research are addressed both in magnetic and inertial confinement plasmas. Linear and nonlinear dynamics in hydrodynamic and kinetic descriptions are exposed so that readers are faced with the simple and complex aspects of the subject in nearly every chapter. The approach of dividing the basic aspects of plasma physics as linear, hydrodynamic descriptions to be covered first and postponing the nonlinear and ... More

Keywords: collective particle dynamics, single particle dynamics, fully ionized plasmas, partially ionized plasmas, magnetic plasmas, inertial confinement plasmas

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9780199295784
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2016 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199295784.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Abraham Bers, author
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachussetts Institute of Technology

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

1 Ionized gases and plasmas—Historical overview, basic concepts, and applications

2 Collective dynamics in plasmas—I. Hydrodynamics and transport

3 Collective dynamics in plasmas—II. Some basic fluid modes

4 Collective dynamics in plasmas—III. Collisionless kinetic effects

5 Collisions and collisional transport—I. Particle collisions

6 Collisions and collisional transport—II. Fully-ionized plasmas—Unmagnetized

7 Collisions and collisional transport—III. Weakly-ionized plasmas—Unmagnetized

8 Charged-particle motion in electromagnetic fields

9 Magnetohydrodynamics

10 Drift-free cold plasma, unmagnetized—Linear and nonlinear electrodynamics

11 Drift-free cold plasma, magnetized—I. Linearized electrodynamics—Appendix: Time dispersive media

12 Drift-free cold plasma, magnetized—II. Linear modes; principal waves

13 Drift-free cold plasma, magnetized —III. Waves in arbitrary directions; nonlinear coupling

14 Dynamics with thermal pressures—I. Unmagnetized plasma

15 Dynamics with thermal pressures—II. Magnetized plasma

16 E-beam waves, instabilities and devices

17 Streaming instabilities in cold plasmas

18 Space-time evolution of linear instabilities—Absolute and convective

19 Electrodynamics of linear modes—Conservation relations and perturbation theory

20 Linear coupling of modes—Amplifying and oscillating instabilities and devices—Appendix: Green’s functions in unstable LCOM interactions

21 Nonlinear coupling of modes and parametric interactions

22 Inhomogeneous and bounded plasmas and beams

23 Micro, kinetic and fluid descriptions—Hierarchy of plasma descriptions

24 Vlasov–Landau–van Kampen/Case kinetic descriptions—Unmagnetized plasma

25 Kinetic theory of instabilities—In one-d and unmagnetized plasmas

26 Kinetic waves and instabilities in magnetized plasmas

27 Kinetic descriptions in inhomogeneous plasmas—Drift waves and instabilities

28 Quasilinear theory and weak turbulence

29 Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in plasmas

30 Kinetic theory of collisions and transport—I. Fully-ionized plasmas

31 Kinetic theory of collisions and transport—II. Weakly-ionized plasmas

32 Radiation and fluctuations in plasmas

33 Mathematical Appendices

End Matter

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Author Index

Subject Index