Electrical properties of plasmas and introduction to controlled fusion

• 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: 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.

Lectures, seminars, visits of some laboratories at the Jozef Stefan Institute