Fusion Plasma Physics

Stacey, Weston M.

1. Edition August 2005
XIV, 557 Pages, Softcover
158 Pictures
28 tables
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ISBN: 978-3-527-40586-2

Wiley-VCH, Berlin

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This graduate textbook assembles the material for a modern course in this rapidly evolving field, introducing the fundamentals of fusion plasma physics while compiling the latest topics in a systematic and concise way. Each chapter is rounded off with a set of exercises.

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Nuclear fusion has the potential to become the most important energy source of the new century. But still many problems, as e.g. the confinement of the plasma, are not yet solved. Thus they are subject to intense research which drives a rapid evolvement of this field of nuclear physics, and generates the need for an up-to-date textbook for graduate students.
This state-of-the-art textbook assembles the material for a modern course, and is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It both introduces the fundamental principles and theories of fusion plasma physics, and presents the most recent topics from various sources in a systematic and concise way. Each chapter is rounded off with a set of exercises.

Basic Physics
Motion of Charged Particles
Magnetic Confinement
Kinetic Theory
Fluid Theory
Plasma Equilibria
Waves
Instabilities
Neoclassical Transport
Plasma Rotation
Turbulent Transport
Heating and Current Drive
Plasma-Material Interactions
Divertors
Plasma Edge
Neutral Particle Transport
Power Balance
Operational Limits
Fusion Reactors and Neutron Sources

Professor Stacey received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He then worked in naval reactor design at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and led the fast reactor theory and computations and the fusion research programs at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1977, he became Callaway Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching and performing research in reactor physics and plasma physics. He is the author of six books and about 250 research papers. He led the international INTOR Workshop which defined the design features and R&D needs for the first fusion experimental reactor, for which he received the US Dept. of Energy Distinguished Associate Award. Professor Stacey is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and of the American Physical Society and is the recipient of, among other awards, the Seaborg Award for Nuclear Research and the Wigner Reactor Physics Award from the American Nuclear Society.

W. M. Stacey, Georgia Institute of Technology