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Fusion Research, Volume I: Principles provides a general description of the methods and problems of fusion research. The book contains three main parts: Principles, Experiments, and Technology. The Principles part describes the conditions necessary for a fusion reaction, as well as the fundamentals...
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Pergamon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
[1982] ©1982 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080255668 |
| Summary: |
Fusion Research, Volume I: Principles provides a general description of the methods and problems of fusion research. The book contains three main parts: Principles, Experiments, and Technology. The Principles part describes the conditions necessary for a fusion reaction, as well as the fundamentals of plasma confinement, heating, and diagnostics. The Experiments part details about forty plasma confinement schemes and experiments. The last part explores various engineering problems associated with reactor design, vacuum and magnet systems, materials, plasma purity, fueling, blankets, neutronics. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781483152998 1483152995 |
| Index Number: | QC791 |
| CLC: | O571.44 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Fusion Research: Principles; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Fusion Research; CHAPTER 1. ENERGY SOURCES; 1A. Forms of Energy; 1B. Energy Demand; 1C. Energy Sources; 1D. Solar Energy; 1E. Fusion Reactions; 1F. Fusion Reactors ; 1G. Summary; Problems; 1, Bibliography; CHAPTER 2. NUCLEAR REACTIONS AND COULOMB COLLISIONS; 2A. Distribution Functions and Averages; 2B. Cross Sections and Reaction Rates; 2C. Nuclear Fusion Reaction Rates; 2D. Power Density and Pressure; 2E. Coulomb Collisions; Problems; Bibliography. 5B. Electromagnetic Fields and Forces5C. Kinetic Theory; 5D. Fluid Equations; 5E. Plasma Waves; 5F. Debye Shielding and Plasma Sheaths; 5G. Quasineutrality; 5H. Computer Methods; Problems; Bibliography; CHAPTER 6. GAS DISCHARGES AND BREAKDOWN; 6A. Background; 6B. Townsend Discharges; 6C. Simplified Breakdown Condition; 6D. Other Phenomena Influencing Breakdown; 6E. Glow and Arc Discharges; 6F. Space Charge Limitation of Current; Problems; Bibliography; CHAPTER 7. CHARGED PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; 7A. Guiding Center Approximation; 7B. Diamagnetism; 7C. Drift Velocities. 7D. Adiabatic Invariants and Magnetic Mirrors7E. Particle Orbits in Tokamaks; Problems; Bibliography; CHAPTER 8. PLASMA CONFINEMENT; 8A. Introduction; SB. Magnetic Confinement; 8C. Axisymmetric Toroidal Equilibrium; 8D. MHD Instabilities; 8E. Microinstabilities; 8F. Transport; 8G. Confinement Times; Problems; Bibliography; CHAPTER 9. PLASMA HEATING; 9A. Methods; 9B. Ohmic Heating; 9C. Compression; 9D. Charged Particle Injection; 9E. Neutral Beam Injection; 9F. Wave Heating; Problems; Bibliography; CHAPTER 10. PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; 10A. Introduction; 10B. Electrical Probes. 10C. Magnetic Flux Measurements10D. Passive Particle Diagnostics; 10E. Active Particle Diagnostics; 10F. Passive Wave Diagnostics; 10G. Active Wave Diagnostics; 10H. TFTR Diagnostics; 10J. Summary; Problems; Bibliography; APPENDIX A: SYSTEME INTERNATIONALE (SI) UNITS; APPENDIX B: FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; APPENDIX C: INTEGRALS; APPENDIX D: IMPORTANT PLASMA EQUATIONS; APPENDIX E: THE ERROR FUNCTION; APPENDIX F: VECTOR RELATIONS; APPENDIX G: TABLE OF SYMBOLS; APPENDIX H: ABBREVIATIONS; APPENDIX I: ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR. |