Course Term: Trinity
Course Weight: 1
Course Overview:
16 lectures
Areas: Astro
Prequel: Kinetic Theory (MT), Advanced Fluid Dynamics (HT), Collisionless Plasma Physics (HT).
Please submit your homework for Collisional Plasma Physics via the 'assignments' tab.
External Lecturer(s):
Prof. Felix Parra Diaz
Assessment Type:
Take-home exam or no formal assessment; homework completion
Course Synopsis:
Collision operators: Fokker-Plank collision operator, conservation properties, entropy, electron-ion and ion-electron collisions, linearized collision operator.
Collisional transport (Braginskii equations: derivation of Spitzer resistivity and electron heat conduction, ion heat conduction and viscosity.
Resistive MHD: tearing modes, magnetic reconnection.
Introduction to tokamak theory: Pfirsch-Schlueter collision transport regime for electrons.