A Practical Application of Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamos and Plasma Self-organization
Hardback
Publication Date: 24/01/2000
Spheromaks are easily formed, self-organized magnetized plasma configurations that have intrigued plasma physicists. Sometimes called magnetic vortices, magnetic smoke rings, or plasmoids, spheromaks first attracted attention as a possible controlled thermonuclear plasma configuration scheme, but are now known to have many other applications. This text 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781860941412
- 9781860941412
- Category:
- Plasma physics
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 24-01-2000
- Publisher:
- Imperial College Press
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 356
- Dimensions (mm):
- 230x155x26mm
- Weight:
- 0.63kg
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