Transport Processes in Plasmas

Preface. Volume 1: 1. Motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. 2. The microscopic description of a plasma. 3. The macroscopic description of a plasma. 4. The Hermitian moment representation. 5. The classical transport theory. 6. Entropy and transport. 7. Magnetohydrodynamics. General appendix G1: Basis functions in velocity space. Volume 2: 8. Toroidal magnetic confinement. 9. The motion of charged particles in toroidal magnetic fields. 10. Kinetic equation and local equilibrium of a magnetically confined plasma. 11. Approximation methods for the kinetic equation. 12. Particle and energy fluxes in magnetically confined plasmas. 13. The classical fluxes and the Pfirsch-Schluter effect. 14. Solution of the drift kinetic equation in the long mean free path regime. 15. The banana transport equations. 16. The intermediate mean free path regime. Interpolation formulae for the transport coefficients. 17. Entropy production in magnetically confined plasmas. 18. Toroidal plasmadynamics. 19. The limitations of the classical and neoclassical transport theories. The runaway effect. General appendix 2: Curvilinear coordinate systems. Author index. Subject index. Index of notations.