Collisional Transport in Magnetized Plasmas (Cambridge Monographs on Plasma Physics, Series Number 4)

Here is a text on theoretical plasma physics, the science of extremely hot gases which make up most of the universe and are used extensively in fusion energy research. The authors treat a topic at the heart of this subject, transport theory, which predicts the electrical and thermal properties of the plasma. This comprehensive book is directed at graduate students in physics and professional research physicists, in particular, fusion energy scientists and space physicists Content: 1. Introduction -- 2. Kinetic and fluid descriptions of a plasma -- 3. The collision operator -- 4. Plasma fluid equations -- 5. Transport in a cylindrical plasma -- 6. Particle motion -- 7. Toroidal plasmas -- 8. Transport in toroidal plasmas -- 9. Transport in the Pfirsch-Schluter regime -- 10. Transport in the plateau regime -- 11. Transport in the banana regime -- 12. The moment approach to neoclassical theory -- 13. Advanced topics -- 14. Experimental evidence for neoclassical transport. This text provides a comprehensive treatment of collisional transport theory, a topic central to the field of theoretical plasma physics. Students, theoreticians and experimentalists in both fusion and space plasma physics will benefit from this book, which emerged from a graduate student level course taught at MIT. The behaviour of an ionized gas, or a plasma, is strongly affected by the presence of a magnetic field.