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Advanced Tokamak stability theory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zheng, Linjin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]
Series:IOP concise physics.
Subjects:
Tokamaks.
Plasma confinement.
Plasma physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author biography
  • Tokamak MHD equilibrium
  • The Grad-Shafranov equation
  • Toroidal flux coordinates
  • The tokamak force balance : the hoop force
  • Ideal MHD instabilities
  • The global MHD spectrum
  • Internal and external global MHD modes
  • Radially localized modes : the Mercier criterion
  • The ballooning modes and ballooning representation
  • The peeling and free boundary ballooning modes
  • The toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes
  • The kinetically driven MHD modes
  • Discussion
  • Resistive MHD instabilities
  • The resistive MHD theory of Glasser, Greene and Johnson
  • The resistive MHD ballooning modes
  • The tearing mode and its coupling to interchange-type modes
  • Discussion : neoclassical tearing modes, etc.
  • Gyrokinetic theory
  • The general gyrokinetic formalism and equilibrium
  • The electrostatic gyrokinetic equation
  • Electrostatic drift waves
  • The electromagnetic gyrokinetic equation
  • FLR effects on the interchange modes
  • The kinetic ballooning mode theory
  • Discussion
  • Physical interpretations of experimental observations
  • The tokamak confinement modes
  • Enhanced electron transport
  • Transport barriers
  • Nonlocal transport
  • The edge localized modes
  • Blob transport
  • Edge harmonic oscillations
  • Concluding remarks
  • Appendix A. Derivation of the gyrokinetics equations
  • The first harmonic solution of the gyrokinetic equation
  • The gyrophase-averaged gyrokinetic equation
  • The gyrokinetic vorticity equation