Course Overview: 16 lectures
Areas: Astro
Prequel: Kinetic Theory (MT), Advanced Fluid Dynamics (HT), Collisionless Plasma Physics (HT).
Link to submit homework to TA Javier Maurino-Alperovich:
https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/XAPHpJDs6TSZ3cy
Hand in dates are
Friday 14th May, 18:00.
Friday 11th June, 18:00.
(All times are UK times)
To find the problem sheets, look on the course page (http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/FelixParra/CollisionalPlasmaPhysics/CollisionalPlasmaPhysics.html)
External Lecturer(s):
Dr Sarah Newton
Assessment Type:
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.
