WAVES AND INSTABILITIES IN PLASMAS

ECE/NE/PHYSICS 922

Current topics in plasma physics.

ECE/NE/PHYSICS 525

Basic description of plasmas: collective phenomena and sheaths, collisional processes, single particle motions, fluid models, equilibria, waves, electromagnetic properties, instabilities, and introduction to kinetic theory and nonlinear processes. Examples from fusion, astrophysical and materials processing processing plasmas.

ECE/NE/PHYSICS 726

MHD equations and validity in hot plasmas; magnetic structure and magnetic flux coordinates; equilibrium in various configurations; stability formulation, energy principle, classification of instabilities; ideal and resistive instability in various configurations, evolution of nonlinear tearing modes; force-free equilibria, helicity, MHD dynamo; experimental applications. Basic knowledge of plasmas [such asPHYSICS/​E C E/​N E  525] and advanced electromagnetics [such asPHYSICS 721orE C E 740] strongly encouraged.

ECE/NE/PHYSICS 725

Coulomb Collisions, Boltzmann equation, Fokker-Planck methods, dynamical friction, neoclassical diffusion, collision operators radiation processes and experimental applications. Basic knowledge of plasmas [such asPHYSICS/​E C E/​N E  525] and advanced electromagnetics [such asPHYSICS 721orE C E 740] strongly encouraged.

NE 903

Special Topics in Plasma Physics. Knowledge of Plasma Physics [such asPHYSICS/​E C E/​N E  525] required