Spheromaks: A Practical Application Of Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamos And Plasma Self-organization
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Spheromaks: A Practical Application Of Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamos And Plasma Self-organization

A Practical Application of Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamos and Plasma Self-Organization

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Spheromaks: A Practical Application Of Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamos And Plasma Self-organization

A Practical Application of Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamos and Plasma Self-Organization

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Spheromaks are easily formed, self-organized magnetized plasma configurations that have intrigued plasma physicists for over two decades. Sometimes called magnetic vortices, magnetic smoke rings, or plasmoids, spheromaks first attracted attention as a possible controlled thermonuclear plasma confinement scheme, but are now known to have many other applications.This book begins with a review of the basic concepts of magnetohydrodynamics and toroidal magnetic configurations, then provides a detailed exposition of the 3D topological concepts underlying spheromak physics, namely magnetic helicity, Taylor relaxation, force-free equilibria, and tilt stability. It then examines spheromak formation techniques, driven and isolated configurations, dynamo concepts, practical experimental issues, diagnostics, and a number of applications. The book concludes by showing how spheromak ideas are closely related to the physics of solar prominences and interplanetary magnetic clouds.

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Publisher
ICP
Year
2000
ISBN
9781848160569
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Nuclear Physics

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. PREFACE
  3. CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  4. CHAPTER 2 Basic Concepts
  5. CHAPTER 3 Magnetic Helicity
  6. CHAPTER 4 Relaxation of an Isolated Configuration to the Taylor State
  7. CHAPTER 5 Relaxation in Driven Configurations
  8. CHAPTER 6 The MHD Energy Principle, Helicity, and Taylor States
  9. CHAPTER 7 Survey of Spheromak Formation Schemes
  10. CHAPTER 8 Classification of Regimes: an Imperfect Analogy to Thermodynamics
  11. CHAPTER 9 Analysis of Isolated Cylindrical Spheromaks
  12. CHAPTER 10 The Role of the Wall
  13. CHAPTER 11 Analysis of Driven Spheromaks: Strong Coupling
  14. CHAPTER 12 Helicity Flow and Dynamos
  15. CHAPTER 13 Confinement and Transport in Spheromaks
  16. CHAPTER 14 Some Important Practical Issues
  17. CHAPTER 15 Basic Diagnostics for Spheromaks
  18. CHAPTER 16 Applications of Spheromaks
  19. CHAPTER 17 Solar and Space Phenomena Related to Spheromaks
  20. REFERENCES
  21. APPENDIX A Vector Identities and Operators
  22. APPENDIX B Bessel Orthogonality Relations
  23. APPENDIX C Capacitor Banks
  24. APPENDIX D Selected Formulae
  25. INDEX