Magnetic Confinement Fusion
This is a course taught to MSc and PhD students in the second term, and assumes some prior knowledge of basic plasma physics e.g. Larmor orbits and Debye length.
In 2015 the course was split between myself and Dr Matt Reinke. The slides from my part of the course are here:
- Lecture 4 - Collisional Transport
- Lecture 5 - Neoclassical transport
- Lecture 6 - Neoclassical currents
- Lecture 7 - Stellarators
- Lecture 11 - Toroidal pinches and current-driven instabilities
- Lecture 12 - Magnetic mirrors and pressure-driven instabilities
- Lecture 13 - Resistive instabilities
- Lecture 14 - Small scale instabilities
Note: The slides below are from the 2014 course, so may not cover the same material as this year's course. All the latest lecture notes, videos and handouts are on the York VLE
- Lecture 1 - Introduction to MCF, linear machines, and collisions
- Lecture 2 - Toroidal confinement devices
- Lecture 3 - Neoclassical transport
- Lecture 4 - MHD equilibrium
- Lecture 5 - Neoclassical currents
- Lecture 6 - Stellarators
- Lecture 7 - MHD waves
- Lecture 8 - Heating and current drive 1: Ohmic and NBI
- Lecture 9 - Heating and current drive 2: Radio Frequency
- Lecture 10 - Plasma instabilities
- Lecture 11 - Pressure driven instabilities and the ideal MHD energy equation
- Lecture 12 - Current driven instabilities
- Lecture 13 - Performance limits
- Lecture 14 - Small-scale instabilities (ITG, ETG, TEM,...)
- Lecture 15 - Turbulence
- Lecture 16 - Gyro-kinetics and turbulence simulations
- Lecture 17 - Turbulence suppression (H-mode, ITBs)
- Lecture 18 - Operating scenarios for ITER
- The Physics of Plasmas by Richard Fitzpatrick, University of Texas at Austin
- Magnetohydrodynamics at U Wisconsin by Prof. Dalton Schnack
- H.Berk's lecture notes (Institute for Fusion Studies, Austin, Texas)