Frontiers in Fusion Research Physics and Fusion /

• Main Author: Kikuchi, Mitsuru (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Renewable energy resources.; Nuclear fusion.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Nuclear engineering.; Nuclear Engineering.; Nuclear Fusion.; Renewable and Green Energy.

Frontiers in Fusion Research provides a systematic overview of the latest physical principles of fusion and plasma confinement. It is primarily devoted to the principle of magnetic plasma confinement, that has been systematized through 50 years of fusion research. Frontiers in Fusion Research begins...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Sun on the Earth: Endless Energy from Hydrogen
• 2. Hydrogen Fusion: Light Nuclei and Theory of Fusion Reactions
• 3. Confinement Bottle: Topology of Magnetic Bottle and Force Equilibrium
• 4. Charged Particle Motion: Lagrange-Hamilton Orbital Dynamics
• 5. Plasma Kinetic Theory: Collective Equation in Phase Space
• 6. Magneto Hydromagnetic Stability: Energy Principle, Flow and Dissipation
• 7. Wave Dynamics: Propagation and Resonance in Inhomogeneous Plasma
• 8. Collisional Transport: Neoclassical Transport in a Torus
• 9. Plasma Turbulence: Self-organized Criticality and Its Local Relaxation
• 10. Towards the Realization of Fusion Energy.