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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 22.616 (Fall 2003) 
  • Course Title:
  • Plasma Transport Theory 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Nuclear Science and Engineering 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Kim Molvig 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 22.616 Plasma Transport Theory



    Fall 2003




    Course Highlights


    This course includes selected lecture notes, links to related resources and a complete set of assignments with solutions.


    Course Description


    This course describes the processes by which mass, momentum, and energy are transported in plasmas, with special reference to magnetic confinement fusion applications.

    The Fokker-Planck collision operator and its limiting forms, as well as collisional relaxation and equilibrium, are considered in detail. Special applications include a Lorentz gas, Brownian motion, alpha particles, and runaway electrons.

    The Braginskii formulation of classical collisional transport in general geometry based on the Fokker-Planck equation is presented.

    Neoclassical transport in tokamaks, which is sensitive to the details of the magnetic geometry, is considered in the high (Pfirsch-Schluter), low (banana) and intermediate (plateau) regimes of collisionality.

    *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

     

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