| Reviews |
| - 'John Wesson's well known book, now re-edited for the third time, provides an excellent introduction to fusion orientated plasma physics in tokamaks ... This reference book should be on the shelf of every fusion scientist and graduate student.' - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
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| Description | | - Established as the standard text on tokamaks
- Comprehensive introduction to the subject
- Covers the latest research developments
- Provides a handbook of equations, formulas and data
| | The tokamak (a doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber surrounded by magnetic coils) is the principal tool in controlled fusion research. This book acts as an introduction to the subject and a basic reference for theory, definitions, equations, and experimental results. Since the first introductory account of tokamaks in 1987, when the tokamak had become the predominant device in the attempt to achieve
a useful power source from thermonuclear fusion, and the developments and advances in the subject covered in the second edition in 1997, following substantial research on large tokamaks (the long awaited achievement of significant amounts of fusion power and the problems involved in designing and building a tokamak reactor), the emphasis has been on preparing the ground for an experimental
reactor. In addition, there have been further significant advances in understanding plasma behaviour, such as the wider experience of internal transport barriers, the appreciation of the role of tearing models driven by neoclassical effects and insights from turbulence simulations. The third edition brings all of this up-to-date, building on the introductory account and developments of the first
and second editions. |
| Contents |
1.
Fusion
2.
Plasma Physics
3.
Equilibrium
4.
Confinement
5.
Heating
6.
Mhd Stability
7.
Instabilities
8.
Microinstabilities
9.
Plasma-surface Interactions
10.
Diagnostics
11.
Tokamak Experiments
12.
Large Tokamaks
13.
The Future
14.
Appendix
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
John Wesson, Senior Theoretical Physicist, JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, Oxon
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