MHD and Energetic Particles
5th Iter International Summer School
1st Edition
Published on 26. January 2013
Book
Hardback
162 pages
978-0-7354-1087-9 (ISBN)
Description
This school aims at preparing young researchers to tackle the current and anticipated challenges at magnetic fusion devices, and spreading the global knowledge required for a timely and competent exploitation of the ITER physics potential. The 5th edition is an overview of MHD interacting with energetic particles issues, with regard to ITER project.
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Persons
Foreword: MHD and Energetic Particles.- Excitation of Alfvén modes by energetic particles in magnetic fusion.- Transport of fast particles in turbulent fields.- Overview of nonlinear kinetic instabilities.- Extension of conventional MHD equilibrium theory to model the fast particle effects.- Mode particle resonance in toroidal fusion devices.- Elementary processes underlying alpha channeling in tokamaks.- Fast particle effects and microturbulence: Stability, transport and size scaling.- Energetic-particle-driven global instabilities in helical plasmas and comparison with tokamak plasmas.- Characterization of energetic particle driven modes by spectral analysis in Tore Supra and FTU tokamaks.- Nonlinear simulations of Alfvén eigenmodes destabilized by energetic particles.
Content
Foreword: MHD and Energetic Particles.- Excitation of Alfvén modes by energetic particles in magnetic fusion.- Transport of fast particles in turbulent fields.- Overview of nonlinear kinetic instabilities.- Extension of conventional MHD equilibrium theory to model the fast particle effects.- Mode particle resonance in toroidal fusion devices.- Elementary processes underlying alpha channeling in tokamaks.- Fast particle effects and microturbulence: Stability, transport and size scaling.- Energetic-particle-driven global instabilities in helical plasmas and comparison with tokamak plasmas.- Characterization of energetic particle driven modes by spectral analysis in Tore Supra and FTU tokamaks.- Nonlinear simulations of Alfvén eigenmodes destabilized by energetic particles.