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Plasma Transport Theory

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States22.616
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2003English
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This course describes the processes by which mass, momentum, and energy are transported in plasmas, with special reference to magnetic confinement fusion applications. The Fokker-Planck collision operator and its limiting forms, as well as collisional relaxation and equilibrium, are considered in detail. Special applications include a Lorentz gas, Brownian motion, alpha particles, and runaway electrons.

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