NIFS-PROC-80

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Author(s):

宮本 健郎
K. Miyamoto

Title:

核融合のためのプラズマ物理
Plasma Physics for Controlled Fusion

Date of publication:

Jan. 12, 2010

Key words:

Magnetohydrodynamics, Kinetic theory of hot plasma, Wave heating and current drive, Transport due to Turbulence, Zonal flow, Tokamak, ITER, Reversed Field Pinch, Stellarator

Abstract:

(Preface)
The primary objective of this lecture note is to present the theories and experiments of plasma physics for recent activities of controlled fusion research for graduate and senior undergraduate students. Chapters 1-6 describe the basic knowledge of plasma and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). MHD instabilities limit the beta ratio (ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure) of confined plasma. Chapters 7-9 provide the kinetic theory of hot plasma and discuss the wave heating and non-inductive current drive. The dispersion relation derived by the kinetic theory are used to discuss plasma waves and perturbed modes. Landau damping is the essential mechanism of plasma heating and the stabilization of perturbation. Landau inverse damping brings the amplification of waves and the destabilization of perturbed modes. Chapter 10 explains the plasma transport due to turbulence, which is the most important and challenging subject for plasma confinement. Theories and simulations including subject of zonal flow are introduced. Chapters 11, 12 and 13 describe the recent activities of tokamak including ITER as well as spherical tokamak, reversed field pinch (RFP) and stellarator including quasi-symmetric configurations. Emphasis has been given to tokamak research since it made the most remarkable progress and the construction phase of ‘International Tokamak Experimental Reactor’called ITER has already started.

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