RF Plasma Heating in Toroidal Fusion Devices, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989

Translation from the Russian. Provides an overview of the methods for RF heating of plasmas in toroidal fusion experiments. Topics covered include the interaction of electromagnetic waves with plasmas, electron cyclotron, ion cyclotron, lower hybrid, and Alfven wave heating techniques, and a compari

1. Plasma Heating in Toroidal Fusion Devices.- 1.1. Conditions for Energy Production in Quasistationary Systems.- 1.2 Basic Concepts of Plasma Confinement in Tokamaks.- 1.3. Experimental Research on Tokamaks.- 1.4. Stellarators.- 1.5. Plasma Heating Efficiency.- 1.6. Specifications for Heating Techniques.- 2. The Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Plasmas.- 2.1. Basic Concepts and the Equations of Plasma Electrodynamics.- 2.2. The Dielectric Tensor of Cold Plasmas.- 2.3. Oscillations and Waves in Cold Plasmas.- 2.4. Wave Propagation in Tokamaks in the Approximation of Geometric Optics.- 2.5. Role of the Thermal Motion of Plasma Particles (k ? B0).- 2.6. Transverse Spatial Dispersion (k ? B0).- 2.7. Effect of Spatial Dispersion on Resonances.- 2.8. Propagation of Waves with ? « ??Be?. The Lower Hybrid Resonance.- 2.9. Propagation of Waves with Frequencies ? ? ?Be and ? « ?Be.- 2.10. Effect of Real Plasma Inhomogeneities on the Propagation of Waves in Toroidal Systems.- 2.11. Distortion of the Distribution Functions of Charged Particles in the Field of a Monochromatic Wave.- 2.12. Quasilinear Theory of Wave Damping.- 2.13. Stochastic Ion Heating in the Lower Hybrid Resonance Frequency Range.- 3. Electron Cyclotron Heating.- 3.1. Basic Heating Schemes and Numerical Simulations.- 3.2. Heating Techniques.- 3.3. Experimental Results.- 3.4. Summary of Research.- 4. Lower Hybrid Heating.- 4.1. Theoretical Model Ill.- 4.2. Heating Techniques.- 4.3. Experimental Studies.- 4.4. Summary of Research.- 5. Ion Cyclotron Heating.- 5.1. The Physics of Wave Propagation for ? ? ?Be. Principal Heating Schemes.- 5.2. Heating Techniques.- 5.3. Experimental Studies.- 5.4. Summary of Research.- 6. Alfvén Wave Heating.- 6.1. Physics of Alfvén Wave Heating.- 6.2. Experimental Studies.- 6.3. Prospects for Alfvén Wave Heating.- 7. A Comparison of Plasma Heating Techniques.- 7.1. Rf Heating.- 7.2. Neutral Beam Injection.- 7.3. Adiabatic Compression.- References.