Plasma Theory - Vladimir Rozhansky

Plasma Theory

An Advanced Guide for Graduate Students
Buch | Hardcover
XI, 363 Seiten
2023 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-44485-2 (ISBN)
96,29 inkl. MwSt

This textbook, based on the author's classroom-tested lecture course, helps graduate students master the advanced plasma theory needed to unlock results at the forefront of current research. It is structured around a two semester course, beginning with kinetic theory and transport processes, while the second semester is devoted to plasma dynamics, including MHD theory, equilibrium, and stability. More advanced problems such as neoclassical theory, stochastization of the magnetic field lines, and edge plasma physics are also considered, and each chapter ends with an illustrative example which demonstrates a concrete application of the theory. The distinctive feature of this book is that, unlike most other advanced plasma science texts, phenomena in both low and high temperature plasma are considered simultaneously so that theory of slightly ionized and fully ionized plasmas is presented holistically. This book will therefore be ideal as a classroom text or self-study guide for a widecohort of graduate students working in different areas like nuclear fusion, gas discharge physics, low temperature plasma applications, astrophysics, and more. It is also a useful reference for more seasoned researchers.

Vladimir Rozhansky is a Professor and Head of Plasma Physics Department at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. His research interests lie in plasma theory, in particular transport in partially ionized magnetized plasma, electric fields and transport in tokamaks. He is one of the main developers of the transport code SOLPS-ITER which is used for edge plasma modelling in many tokamaks over the world. For several years he has been awarded the title 'Soros Professor', and has worked as an invited scientist numerous times at the Institute for Plasma Physics (Germany), Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (UK), and the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden). He is an ITER Scientific Fellow. Vladimir Rozhansky has lectured on Plasma Theory at SPbPU since 1988, and was scientific adviser for many doctoral students in the area of plasma theory.

Chapter 1. Plasma Kinetics.- Chapter 2. Transport equations.- Chapter 3. Quasineutral plasma and sheath structure.- Chapter 4. Diffusion in partially ionized unmagnetized plasma.- Chapter 5. Diffusion of partially ionized magnetized plasma.- Chapter 6. Partially ionized plasma with current.- Chapter 7. Transport in strongly ionized plasma across a magnetic field.- Chapter 8. Drift waves and turbulent transport.- Chapter 9. Dynamics of fully ionized plasma in the absence of a magnetic field.- Chapter 10. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).- Chapter 11. Dynamics of plasma blobs and jets in a magnetic field.- Chapter 12. Plasma equilibrium.- Chapter 13. Transport phenomena in tokamaks.- Chapter 14. Instabilities in magnetized plasma.- Chapter 15. Magnetic islands and stochastic magnetic field.- Chapter 16. Improved confinement regime (H-mode).


Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XI, 363 p. 108 illus., 11 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 721 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Plasmaphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte Advanced plasma theory • Fully ionized plasma • Partially ionized plasma • Plasma dynamics • Plasma equilibria • plasma kinetics • Plasma theory textbook • Plasma Transport • tokamak plasma
ISBN-10 3-031-44485-X / 303144485X
ISBN-13 978-3-031-44485-2 / 9783031444852
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