Collisional Plasma Physics (2022-23)
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Course term: Trinity
Course lecture information: 16 lectures
Course weight: 1
Course overview:
16 lectures
Areas: Astro
Prequel: Kinetic Theory (MT), Advanced Fluid Dynamics (HT), Collisionless Plasma Physics (HT).
Areas: Astro
Prequel: Kinetic Theory (MT), Advanced Fluid Dynamics (HT), Collisionless Plasma Physics (HT).
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.
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.