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Synopsis
Instabilities in a Confined Plasma is entirely devoted to a theoretical exposition of the subject of plasma instabilities in confined systems. The book is an important contribution to the study of plasma instabilities, not only in fusion devices such as the Tokamak but also in astrophysical phenomena. It covers toroidal confinement systems, internal MHD modes, small-scale MHD instabilities, MHD internal kink modes, MHD modes in collisionless and neoclassical regimes, drift-MHD modes, external kink modes, and Alfven eigenmodes.
Booknews
Presents a unified approach to the theory of those electromagnetic instabilities which are inherent in plasmas within toroidal confinement systems such as tokamaks. Starts with treatment of the equilibrium theory of plasmas and the theory of internal magentohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in cylindrical plasmas, then goes on to deal with the effects of toroidicity and high plasma pressures, and relates these effects to a variety of ideal and resistive MHD modes. Also considers MHD modes in the presence of effects lying beyond MHD theory, such as plasma pressure anisotopy and trapped particles. Also covers systems other than tokamaks, such as stellerators. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.