Electron cyclotron heating of plasmas [[electronic resource] /] / Gareth Guest

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830512203321
• Autore: Guest Gareth, Dr.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Weinheim, : VCH, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-37987-9; 9786612379871; 3-527-62788-X; 3-527-62789-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.44; 621.484
• Soggetti: Electron cyclotron resonance sources; Electron cyclotron resonance sources - Industrial applications; Plasma heating; Plasma heating - Industrial applications
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Electron Cyclotron Heating of Plasmas; Contents; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Magnetic Fields; 2.1 Magnetic Mirrors: Field Calculations Using the Vector Potential; 2.2 Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates and Clebsch Representations; 2.3 Magnetic Mirrors: Field Calculations Using the Scalar Potential; 2.4 The Dipole Limit: Planetary Magnetic Fields; 2.5 Tokamaks: Rotational Transform and the ""Safety Factor""; References; 3 Electron Orbits; 3.1 Electron Gyromotion; 3.2 Electron Bounce Motion; 3.3 Electron Drift Motions; 3.4 Relativistic Electron Kinematics for ECH; 3.5 The Hamiltonian Approach; 3.6 Drift Orbits in Toroidal Magnetic ConfigurationsReferences; 4 Wave Propagation and Cyclotron Damping in Magnetized Plasmas; 4.1 The Cold-Plasma Dispersion Relation; 4.2 Critical Conditions for Parallel Propagation; 4.3 Critical Conditions for Perpendicular Propagation; 4.4 Clemmow-Mullaly-Allis Diagrams; 4.5 The High-Field Regime; 4.6 The Low-Field Regime; 4.7 A Few Preliminary Implications for ECH Experiments; 4.8 Wave Damping; 4.8.1 A Collisional Model of Damping; ; 4.8.2 An Introduction to Collisionless Cyclotron Damping; 4.8.3 Cyclotron Damping of Whistler Waves; 4.8.4 Cyclotron Damping of Waves Propagating as O-Modes4.9 Electrostatic Plasma Waves; 4.10 Estimates of the Electric Field Amplitude; 4.11 Ray Tracing in Inhomogeneous Plasmas; References; 5 Interaction of Electrons with Electromagnetic Fields at Resonance; 5.1 A Rudimentary Stochastic Model of ECH; 5.2 Dynamics of the Fundamental Resonance Interaction; 5.2.1 Dynamics of the Electron Interaction With X-Mode Waves; 5.2.2 Dynamics of the Electron Interaction With Parallel RF Electric Fields; 5.2.3 Dynamics of the Electron Interaction with O-Mode Waves; 5.3 Heating of Relativistic Electrons; 5.4 Limit Cycles5.5 Nonlinear Effects: Mapping Approaches; References; 6 Equilibrium; 6.1 Charge Balance; 6.2 Particle and Power Balance; 6.2.1 Particle and Energy Balance for Group 1; 6.3 Breakdown and Start-up; 6.3.1 Breakdown by Heating on the Midplane of a Magnetic Mirror; 6.3.2 Breakdown with Heating Well Off the Midplane; 6.3.3 Breakdown with Heating near the Midplane; 6.4 ECH Runaway: Groups 2 and 3; 6.4.1 Particle Balance for Electrons in Group 2; 6.4.2 Particle and Power Balance for Electrons in Group 3; 6.5 Fokker-Planck Models of Hot-Electron Equilibria; 6.6 Ad Hoc Velocity-Space Models of Anisotropic Hot-Electron EquilibriaReferences; 7 Stability; 7.1 Interchange Instabilities; 7.2 Electrostatic Velocity-Space Instabilities Driven by Wave-Particle Interactions; 7.3 Electromagnetic Velocity Space Instabilities; References; 8 Experimental Results in Magnetic Mirrors; 8.1 Hot-Electron Experiments in ""Physics Test Facility"" and EPA [1-3]; 8.2 High-Beta Experiments in ELMO [9]; 8.3 Unstable Electromagnetic Waves in the TPM [12]; 8.4 Heating Experiments in AMPHED [15]; References; 9 Electron Cyclotron Heating in Tokamaks; 9.1 Ordinary-Mode Fundamental ECH Absorption in PLT
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