21.02.2025
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INTRODUCTION & THE BASICS OF NUCLEAR FUSION ENERGY
- Fusion and the world's energy needs.
- Nuclear fusion
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- Freidberg, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4
- Fusion Physics, IAEA
| Applications
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| 28.02.2025 |
MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT: MAGNETO-HYDRODYNAMIC DESCRIPTION OF A PLASMA
- Brief MHD reminder from Plasma Physics I
- What is the MHD description of the plasma?
- Magnetostatic MHD equilibrium: generalities and 1D
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- Wesson, Tokamaks - Third Edition, Ch. 2.18-2.21, 3.1-3.8
| Applications
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| 07.03.2025 |
MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT: TOKAMAK CONFIGURATION AND OTHER OPTIONS
- Axisymmetric (2D) equilibrium
- Tokamak, Stellarator and other concepts
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- Wesson, Tokamaks - Third Edition, Ch. 3.2-3.3, 3.9-3.12
- Freidberg, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Ch. 11.7
| Applications
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| 14.03.2025 |
MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT: TOKAMAK STABILITY AND OPERATIONAL LIMITS
- MHD stability
- Linear stability in axisymmetric tokamak: cylindrical stability
- Operational limits: current, density and beta
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- Wesson, Tokamaks - Third Edition, Ch. 6.1-6.7, 7.1-7.3, 7.7-7.9, 7.18
- Zohm, MHD stability of Tokamaks, Ch. 3.1-3.3, 4.1-4.2
| Introduction
Applications
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| 21.03.2025 |
MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT: DIFFUSION AND TRANSPORT IN TOKAMAK PLASMAS
- Diffusion and transport: general principles
- Diffusion and transport in a tokamak: the fluid approach
- Neoclassical diffusion and transport in a tokamak: the particle approach
- The basic aspect of anomalous diffusion: turbulence and drift waves
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- Wesson, Tokamaks - Third Edition, Ch. 2.4-2.6, 2.23, 3.9-3.12, 4.1-4.8, 4.12-4.14, 4.17, 4.18, 8.1, 8.2
| Applications
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| 28.03.2025 |
MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT: HEATING, BURNING PLASMAS, ITER AND THE REACTOR
- Need for (auxiliary) heating
- Neutral beam heating
- Heating by waves
- Alpha heating
- Towards a reactor
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- Freidberg, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Ch. 15
| Applications
- Modules 7f, 7g, 7h, 7i, 7j
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| 04.04.2025 |
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF PLASMA PHYSICS
- Breakdown ionization
- Elastic and inelastic collisions
- Ionization collisions; secondary emission; Townsend coefficients
- Breakdown criterion in gases
- Paschen's law
- Vacuum breakdown
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N.St.J. Braithwaite, Introduction to gas discharges, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 9 (2000) 517 Y. P. Raizer, Gas Discharge Physics
- A. M. Howatson, An Introduction to Gas Discharges
| Applications
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| 11.04.2025 |
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF PLASMA PHYSICS
- Formation of a sheath and ion flux
- Plasma etch applications
- Ion energy across a floating sheath
- Radio-frequency plasmas
- Ion energy distribution with and without collisions
- Applications of large area RF plasmas
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- M. Lieberman & A. Lichtenberg, “Principles of plasma discharges and materials processing”, Section 6.1-6.2
| Applications
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| 02.05.2025 |
PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS: AN INTRO TO THE SUN
- Sun properties
- Energy transport processes in the Sun
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- Basics of the solar wind, Nicole Meyer-Vernet, Cambridge University Press 2007
- Solar Astrophysics, Peter V.Foukal, Wiley, Jun 14, 1990
| Applications
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| 09.05.2025 |
PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS: THE DYNAMO AND MAGNETIC RECONNECTION
- The Sun magnetic field and Babcock's model
- Flux tubes and Kink instability in the Sun.
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| Applications
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| 16.05.2025 |
PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS: AN INTRO - SOLAR WIND
- The solar wind and the heliosphere
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| Applications
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| 23.05.2025 |
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS 1: PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS
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- I. H. Hutchinson, Principles of Plasma Diagnostics, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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30.05.2025
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PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS 2: ACTIVE MEASUREMENTS
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- I. H. Hutchinson, Principles of Plasma Diagnostics, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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