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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The science of magnetically confined plasmas covers the entire spectrum of physics from classical and relativistic electrodynamics to quantum mechanics. During the last sixty years of research, our initial primitive understanding of plasma physics has made impressive progress thanks to a variety of experiments - from tabletop devices with plasma temperatures of a few thousands of degrees and confinement times of less than 100 microseconds, to large tokamaks with plasma temperatures of up to five hundred million degrees and confinement times approaching one second. We discovered that plasma con. |
| Contents |
1. Controlled thermonuclear fusion. 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. Ignition conditions. 1.3. Tokamaks. 1.4. Tokamak operating limits -- 2. Electron waves. 2.1. Maxwell equations. 2.2. Homogeneous plasmas. 2.3. Plane waves in cold homogeneous plasmas. 2.4. Wave polarization. 2.5. Wave packets in homogeneous plasmas -- 3. Inhomogeneous plasmas. 3.1. Wave packets in weakly inhomogeneous plasmas. 3.2. Ray equations in absorbing plasmas. 3.3. Ray tracing. 3.4. The complex eikonal approximation. 3.5. Propagation of a Gaussian beam -- 4. Refractive index measurements. 4.1. Interferometry. 4.2. Polarization of waves. 4.3. Polarization evolution equation. 4.4. Plasma polarimetry. 4.5. Conclusion -- 5. Wave propagation in turbulent plasmas. 5.1. Scattering of waves by plasma fluctuations. 5.2. Intensity of scattered waves. 5.3. Turbulence measurements. 5.4. Short-scale anisotropic turbulence. 5.5. CO2 laser scattering. 5.6. Wave number resolution -- 6. Non-collective scattering. 6.1. Radiation by a moving electron. 6.2. Scattered power. 6.3. Spectral density to second order in [beta symbol]. 6.4. Non-collective scattering in magnetized plasmas. 6.5. Scattering measurements -- 7. Plasma reflectometry. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Density measurements. 7.3. WKBJ approximation. 7.4. Calculation of electron density. 7.5. Fluctuations measurements. 7.6. Multidimensional turbulent fluctuations. 7.7. Numerical simulation -- 8. Electron cyclotron waves in hot plasmas. 8.1. Relativistic theory of electron cyclotron waves. 8.2. Dispersion relation. 8.3. Wave cutoff in hot plasmas -- 9. Electron cyclotron emission. 9.1. Radiation transport. 9.2. Solution of radiative transfer equation. 9.3. Plasma emission. 9.4. Temperature measurements. 9.5. Temperature fluctuations measurements. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Controlled fusion.
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Controlled fusion. |
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Electromagnetic waves.
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Electromagnetic waves. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mazzucato, E. (Ernesto), author. Electromagnetic waves for thermonuclear fusion research 9789814571807 (DLC) 2013047942 (OCoLC)862095778 |
| ISBN |
9789814571814 (electronic book) |
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9814571814 (electronic book) |
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9789814571807 |
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9814571806 |
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