University of California San Diego, Department of Physics
Spring 2012 Physics 218C
Lecture Notes

Reduced MHD - posted 14 May 2012

Schematic Notes on Quasi-Modes - posted 04 June 2012


SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL FOR 218C

"50 years of fusion research" - Dale Meade

"The Physics Basis of ITER Confinement" - F. Wagner

"Introduction to the Theory of Confinement" - X. Garbet

"Pseudo-three dimensional turbulence in magnetized nonuniform plasma" - Akira Hasegawa and Kunioki Mima

"A collisional drift wave description of plasma edge turbulence" - Masahiro Wakatani and Akira Hasegawa

"A quarter-century of H-mode studies" - F. Wagner

"Low Frequency Modes in Confined Plasmas - K. Itoh, S.-I. Itoh and A. Fukuyama

"Turbulence in Toroidal Systems" - B.B. Kadomtsev and O.P. Pogutse

"Zonal Flows: From Wave Momentum and Potential Vorticity Mixing to Shearing Feedback Loops and Enhanced Confinement" - P.H. Diamond

"Zonal flows in plasma-a review" - P.H. Diamond, S.-I. Itoh, K. Itoh and T.S. Hahm

"Vorticity dynamics, drift wave turbulence, and zonal flows: a look back and a look ahead" - P.H. Diamond, A. Hasegawa and K. Mima

"Eddy Motion in the Atmosphere" - G.I. Taylor

"Multiple Jets as PV Staircases: The Phillips Effect and the Resilience of Eddy-Transport Barriers" - D.G. Dritschel and M.E. McIntyre

"The General Circulation of the Atmosphere" - Isaac M. Held and GFD/2000 Fellows

"Gravitational Resistive Instability of an Incompressible Plasma in a Sheard Magnetic Field" - K.V. Roberts and J.B. Taylor

"High mode number stability of an axisymmetric toroidal plasma" - J.W. Connor, R.J. Hastie and J.B. Taylor

"Shear, Periodicity, and Plasma Ballooning Modes" - J.W. Connor, R.J. Hastie, and J.B. Taylor

"Nonlinear growth of the tearing mode" - P.H. Rutherford

"Intro to Mixing Length Theory" - Douglas Gough; D.O. Gough and E.A. Spiegel