1st Edition

Instabilities in a Confined Plasma

By A.B Mikhailovskii Copyright 1998
    462 Pages
    by CRC Press

    462 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Instabilities in a Confined Plasma is entirely devoted to a theoretical exposition of the subject of plasma instabilities in confined systems. The book is an important contribution to the study of plasma instabilities, not only in fusion devices such as the Tokamak but also in astrophysical phenomena. It covers toroidal confinement systems, internal MHD modes, small-scale MHD instabilities, MHD internal kink modes, MHD modes in collisionless and neoclassical regimes, drift-MHD modes, external kink modes, and Alfven eigenmodes.

    EQUILIBRIUM OF A PLASMA IN TOROIDAL CONFINEMENT SYSTEMS
    General results of equilibrium theory
    Equilibrium of a plasma in axisymmetric systems
    Equilibrium of a plasma in systems without axial symmetry

    INTERNAL MHD MODES IN THE CYLINDRICAL APPROXIMATION
    Description of MHD perturbations in a cylindrical plasma
    Ideal MHD internal modes
    Resistive MHD modes in a cylindrical plasma

    SMALL-SCALE MHD INSTABILITIES IN TOROIDAL CONFINEMENT SYSTEMS
    Description of marginally-stable small-scale ideal perturbations
    Small-scale MHD stability of a plasma in tokamaks
    Small-scale MHD stability of a plasma in complex magnetic systems
    Growth rates of ideal small-scale modes
    Resistive small-scale MHD modes in a toroidal geometry

    MHD INTERNAL KINK MODES IN TOROIDAL GEOMETRY
    Description of ideal kink modes in toroidal geometry
    Ideal internal kink modes in toroidal confinement systems with low- and finite-pressure plasma
    Ideal internal kink modes in toroidal systems with high-pressure plasma
    Resistive internal kink modes in toroidal systems

    MHD MODES IN COLLISIONLESS AND NEOCLASSICAL REGIMES
    Description of equilibrium and perturbations in collisionless and neoclassical plasmas
    Effects of plasma pressure anisotropy on MHD stability
    Effect of trapped particles on MHD stability
    Description of longitudinal viscosity in the MHD modes
    MHD modes in a viscous plasma

    DRIFT-MHD MODES
    Ideal drift-MHD modes
    Resistive drift-MHD modes
    Neoclassical resistive drift-MHD modes
    Semicollisional drift-MHD modes
    Interaction of energetic trapped particles with MHD modes

    EXTERNAL KINK MODES
    Ideal external kink modes
    Resistive-wall mode instability
    Stabilization of resistive-wall mode instability in a tokamak with rotating plasma

    ALFVEN EIGENMODES AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH ENERGETIC PARTICLES
    Toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes
    Kinetic toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes

    Biography

    Mikhailovskii, A.B