Per Helander, Dieter J. Sigmar

Collisional Transport in Magnetized Plasmas

Herausgeber: Haines, M. G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521020985
• ISBN-10: 0521020980
• Artikelnr.: 22055994

Autorenporträt

PER HELANDER is a research scientist at the Culham Science Centre of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. After obtaining his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, he held a post-doctoral position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he remains a regular visitor. His scientific interests include most topics of theoretical plasma physics, in particular kinetic theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Kinetic and fluid descriptions of a plasma
3. The collision operator
4. Plasma fluid equations
5. Transport of a cylindrical plasma
6. Particle motion
7. Toroidal plasma
8. Transport in toroidal plasmas
9. Transport in the Pfirsch-Schlüter regime
10. Transport in the plateau regime
11. Transport in the banana regime
12. The moment approach to neoclassical theory
13. Advanced topics
14. Experimental evidence for neoclassical transport.