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.
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.
