ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|63 pages
Equilibrium of A Plasma in Toroidal Confinement Systems
part 2|43 pages
Internal Magnetohydrodynamic Modes in The Cylindrical Approximation
part 3|84 pages
Small-Scale Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities in Toroidal Confinement Systems
part 4|62 pages
Magnetohydrodynamic Internal Kink Modes in Toroidal Geometry
part 5|61 pages
Magnetohydrodynamic Modes in Collisionless and Neoclassical Regimes
part 6|64 pages
Drift–Magnetohydrodynamic Modes
part 7|32 pages
External Kink Modes
part 8|32 pages
Alfvén Eigenmodes and Their Interaction with High-Energy Particles