Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma Physics: Multifluid theory

PRELIMS.pdf
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Author biography
		Linjin Zheng
CH001.pdf
	Chapter 1 Principle of the fluid description of magnetically confined plasmas
		1.1 Framework of conventional fluid theory
		1.2 Fluid description of magnetically confined plasmas
		References
CH002.pdf
	Chapter 2 Braginskii two-fluid theory
		2.1 Transport equations
			2.1.1 Boltzmann equation
			2.1.2 Moments of the kinetic equations
			2.1.3 On the moment closure and transport coefficients
		2.2 Estimation and interpretation of transport coefficients
			2.2.1 Random walks
			2.2.2 Momentum transfer
			2.2.3 Viscosity
			2.2.4 Heat flux
			2.2.5 Heat generation
		2.3 Kinetic theory evaluation of transport coefficients for moment closure
			2.3.1 Kinetic equations in the center of mass
			2.3.2 Electron–ion cross collisional operator
			2.3.3 Ion–electron cross collisional operator
			2.3.4 Transport coefficients based on the collisional operators
			2.3.5 The first order kinetic equations
			2.3.6 Transport coefficients based on the distribution functions
			2.3.7 Transport coefficients due to the finite Larmor radius effects
		2.4 Conditions of applicability
		References
CH003.pdf
	Chapter 3 Perpendicular magnetofluid theory in the collisionless limit
		3.1 Kinetic equation in the field-line-aligned coordinate system
		3.2 Moments of kinetic equation
			3.2.1 Definitions of fluid quantities
			3.2.2 Continuity equation
			3.2.3 Momentum transport equation
			3.2.4 Energy transport equation
		3.3 Kinetic closure of perpendicular magnetofluid equations
			3.3.1 The first order kinetic equations
			3.3.2 Solutions of the first order kinetic equations
		3.4 Transport coefficients
		3.5 Equation summary
		3.6 Conclusions and discussion
		References
CH004.pdf
	Chapter 4 Equilibrium analyses with the perpendicular magnetofluid theory
		References
CH005.pdf
	Chapter 5 Electrostatic modes in the perpendicular magnetofluid description
		5.1 Basic set of equations
		5.2 The dispersion relation for electrostatic modes
		5.3 Discussion: comparison with the gyrokinetic theory
		References
CH006.pdf
	Chapter 6 Electromagnetic modes in the perpendicular magnetofluid description
		6.1 Basic set of equations
		6.2 Perpendicular MHD with the kinetic parallel inertia
		6.3 Wave-particle resonance and parallel electric field effects
		6.4 Finite Larmor radius effects
			6.4.1 Gyroviscosity for electromagnetic modes
			6.4.2 Finite Larmor radius effects and the gyroviscous cancellation
		6.5 Coupling of the electrostatic drift waves
		6.6 Conclusions and discussion
		References
CH007.pdf
	Chapter 7 The collisional effects in the perpendicular magnetofluid formalism
		7.1 The kinetic equation and its moment equations
		7.2 Collisional effects on the electrostatic modes
		7.3 Collisional effects on the electromagnetic modes
		7.4 Conclusions and discussion
		References
CH008.pdf
	Chapter 8 Fluid-kinetic hybrid theories
		8.1 Pressure moment approach
		8.2 Current moment approach
			8.2.1 Structure of linear ideal MHD equations
			8.2.2 Hybrid equations with the current moment approach
		8.3 Conclusions and discussion
		References
CH009.pdf
	Chapter 9 Concluding remarks
		Reference
APP1.pdf
	Chapter
APP2.pdf
	Chapter
		B.1 Table of integrations for the Maxwellian distribution function
		B.2 Table of integrations for the perpendicular Maxwellian distribution function