Stangeby P.C. The Plasma Boundary of Magnetic Fusion Devices

IOP Publishing Ltd., 2000. – 715 p. – ISBN: 0750305592.The Plasma Boundary of Magnetic Fusion Devices introduces the physics of the plasma boundary region, including plasma-surface interactions, with an emphasis on those occurring in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. The book covers plasma-surface interaction, Debye sheaths, sputtering, scrape-off layers, plasma impurities, recycling and control, 1D and 2D fluid and kinetic modeling of particle transport, plasma properties at the edge, diverter and limiter physics, and control of the plasma boundary.An introduction to the subject of the plasma boundary
Simple Analytic Models of the Scrape-Off Layer
The Role and Properties of the Sheath
Experimental Databases Relevant to Edge Physics
Simple SOL
The Divertor SOL
Plasma Impurities
The H-Mode and ELMs
Fluctuations in the Edge Plasma
Introduction to fluid modelling of the boundary plasma
The 1D Fluid Equations
1D Models for the Sheath-Limited SOL
1D Modelling of the Conduction-Limited SOL
‘Onion-Skin’ Method for Modelling the SOL
An Introduction to Standard 2D Fluid Modelling of the SOL
Plasma Boundary Research
Supersonic Flow along the SOL
Flow Reversal in the SOL
Divertor Detachment
Currents in the SOL
Drifts in the SOL
The Relation Between SOL and Main Plasma Density for Divertors
20 Extracting χSOL(r) From Target Plasma Data Using the Onion-Skin Method
Measurements of DSOL, χSOL and the Decay Lengths for Divertor SOLs
MARFEs
The Radiating Plasma Mantle
Zeff, Prad and the Relation Between Them
Further Aspects of the Sheath
Kinetic Effects and Corrections to Collisional Expressions
Impurity Injection Experiments
Appendix Solutions to Problems