Nuclear Fusion

The pursuit of nuclear fusion as an energy source requires a broad knowledge of several disciplines. These include plasma physics, atomic physics, electromagnetics, materials science, computational modeling, superconducting magnet technology, accelerators, lasers, and health physics. Nuclear Fusion distills and combines these disparate subjects to create a concise and coherent foundation to both fusion science and technology. It examines all aspects of physics and technology underlying the major magnetic and inertial confinement approaches to developing nuclear fusion energy. It further chronicles latest developments in the field, and reflects the multi-faceted nature of fusion research, preparing advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and engineering to launch into successful and diverse fusion-related research.

Nuclear Fusion reflects Dr. Morse’s research in both magnetic and inertial confinement fusion, working with the world’s top laboratories, and embodies his extensive thirty-five year career in teaching three courses in fusion plasma physics and fusion technology at University of California, Berkeley.

Effect of flow on equilibrium

Chapter 5 MHD instabilities 

Ideal MHD

Energy Principle

Interchange instability

Kink and sausage  instability

Wesson diagram for tokamak stability

Ballooning modes

Numerical solutions

Resistive MHD

Magnetic Islands

’ and Rutherford growth

Magnetic stochasticity

Vlasov equation

Collision operators 

Braginskii transport equations

Timescale hierarchy for electrons and ions

Beam slowing down 

Pfirsch-Schluter regime

Trapped particles