Cross and Manheimer/Lashmore-Davies sell steadily in the export market - potential for Cairns here. This book provides a concise introduction to the basic physics of radiofrequency heating. Most existing literature on the subject is at the research level, aimed at specialists in the field. It provides a survey of theoretical and experimental results with a large number of references to help the reader wishing for more detail. Provides a concise and readable account/ Basic physical principles are emphasised and more complicated mathematical ideas are explained in outline. Radiofrequency current drive is discussed in detail. "One criticsm may be lack of detail. I have deliberatly avoided including a lot of mathematical and experimental detail in order to keep the book short and to concentrate on the essential ideas. Enough references are given to lead anyone wishing more detail to the appropriate literature" - comment from the author? Export Market: Japan, USA, CERN, all important centres for fusion research Tokamaks - supercolliders for particle acceleration - particles are bombarded by extremely powerful lasers the beams of which are split many times through kms of piping - massive structurees largest currently in Japan but also important structure in US.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Researchers and postgraduate students in plasma physics and controlled fusion.
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978-0-7503-0034-6 (9780750300346)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Introduction: The use of radiofrequency heating in fusion research. Wave propagation in a plasma. Mode conversion. Particle diffusion. Transit time damping. Alfven wave heating: Introduction. Properties of the Alfven wave and the heating mechanism. Effects of cylindrical and toroidal geometry. Antenna-plasma coupling. Experiments on Alfven wave heating. Ion cyclotron heating: Introduction. Wave propagation in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies. Heating at the second harmonic. The two-ion hybrid resonance and minority heating. Calculations in tokamak geometry and antenna coupling. Experiments on ion cyclotron heating. Ion Bernstein wave heating. Lower hybrid heating: Introduction. Lower hybrid waves in a cold plasma and the accessibility condition. Absorption of lower hybrid waves. Launching of lower hybrid waves. Experimental results on lower hybrid heating. Fast wave heating. Electron cyclotron heating: Introduction. Cold plasma propagation. Electron cyclotron wave propagation in a hot plasma. Non-linear effects at high powers. Experimental aspects. Current drive: Introduction. Basic principles. Langevin equations. Adjoint methods. Lower hybrid current drive. Electron cyclotron current drive. Minority species current drive. The anomalous Doppler instability. Conclusion. References. Index.
