Fusion modeling in plasma physics: Vlasov-like systems

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

The virtual-casing principle is used in plasma physics to convert a Biot–Savart integration over a current distribution into a surface integral over a surface that encloses the current. In many circumstances, use of virtual casing can significantly speed up the computation of magnetic fields. In this paper, a virtual-casing principle is derived for a general vector field with arbitrary divergen...

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

This review focusses on the contributions of plasma physics to chaos and nonlinear dynamics bringing new methods which are or can be used in other scientific domains. It starts with the development of the theory of Hamiltonian chaos, and then deals with order or quasi order, for instance adiabatic and soliton theories. It ends with a shorter account of dissipative and high dimensional Hamiltoni...

A review of Vlasov-Fokker-Planck numerical modeling of inertial confinement fusion plasma

0021-9991/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2011.09.028 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (A.G.R. Thomas) 1 Present address: University of California, Los Ang 2 Present address: Clarendon Laboratory, Universit 3 lasers.llnl.gov. 4 www-lmj.cea.fr/. The interaction of intense lasers with solid matter generates a hot plasma state that is well described by ...

Fundamentals of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research

o;oNLINEAR TOROIDAL PLASMA DYNAMICS BY REDUCED FLUID MODELS. . Fluid models are presented which generalize reduced MHD by allowing for compressibility, Finite Larmor Radius, and long mean free path in toroidal geometry. The Hamiltonian structure of the models leads to a generalized energy principle for determining linear and nonlinear MHD stability of uilibria with flows and Finite Larmor Radiu...