Electrical properties of plasmas and introduction to controlled fusion
Basic information
Subject description
- Definitions of the Debye length, plasma parameter, plasma frequency
- Motion of a charged particle in electric and magnetic field
- Diffusion in a plasma and plasma conductivity
- Kinetic and hydrodynamic description of a plasma
- Basic MHD equations and some fusion oriented examples
- Plasma waves
- Binary interactions (collisions
- Introduction to fusion, fusion reactions, power balance, magnetic and inertial confinement
- Nonlinear phenomena: sheaths, electric probes
- Introduction to particle-in-cell computer simulations of bounded plasma systems
Objectives
Objectives: Gaining basic theoretical and practical knowledge of processes in gaseous plasmas.
Competences: Knowledge of fundamental areas of plasma physics and technology and understanding of the challenges in the fusion reactor development.
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures, seminars, visits of some laboratories at the Jozef Stefan Institute
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