×

Tokamaks. 3rd ed. (English) Zbl 1111.82054

International Series of Monographs on Physics 118. Oxford: Clarendon Press (ISBN 0-19-850922-7/hbk). xiii, 749 p. (2004).
The book consists of and fourteen chapters gives the best introduction to the tokamak devises, confinement, heating, MHD equilibrium and stabilities problems and the transport theory of plasmas in strong magnetic fields. Several authors of the book are focusing on all physical aspects of the thermo-nucleus fusion using the tokamak confinement systems. The general aspects, main theoretical concepts and engineering problems of tokamak confinement systems and so on are surveyed. The book includes short reviews of problems of plasma heating, MHD stabilities of plasma, plasma transport, plasma-surface interactions, and related phenomena that are very important for the tokamak confinement systems.
The basic principles of the kinetic theory of collisioness and collisional plasmas (the kinetic equation, the Fokker-Planck equation, the linearized collision operator) are discussed in the second chapter. Here the traditional results of motion of charged particles that are based on the guiding center approximation are given. Plasma fluid equations, their properties and confinement problems are presented in the third and fourth chapters. Specifics of the transport in toroidal MHD equilibrium configurations are analyzed. The big part of the book is dedicated to the tokamak experiments.
In a special chapter the future of the tokamak confinement systems is discussed. Materials of each part of the book are supported by very important illustrations. The authors know how to show for readers all problems of the tokamak confinement systems. This book may be useful for advanced graduate students, scientists and all who are interested in plasma physics and the tokamak confinement systems.

MSC:

82D10 Statistical mechanics of plasmas
82-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistical mechanics
76W05 Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics
81V99 Applications of quantum theory to specific physical systems
82C70 Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics
PDFBibTeX XMLCite