Lecture Notes (in working)
| No. | Topic | Main source** | Additional source*** |
|---|---|---|---|
| * Optional topics are given depending on the time available | |||
| ** Main source: Lecture notes | |||
| *** Additional source: Chen, Introduction to plasma physics and controlled fusion | |||
| 1 | Basic definitions and parameters. Debye screening and plasma osillations. Ionization. Coulomb collisions. | Ch 1 | Ch 1 |
| 2 | Hierarchy of descriptions. Single-fluid model. Magnetohydrodynamics. | Ch 2 | |
| 3 | MHD equilibria and waves. | Ch3 | Ch 6.1-6.4 |
| 4 | MHD discontinuities. MHD in space plasmas. | Ch 4 | |
| 5 | Two-fluid description. Relation to MHD. | Ch 5 | |
| 6 | Waves in dispersive media - general approach. | Ch 6 | Ch 4.1-4.2 |
| 7 | Waves in two-fluid hydrodynamics without and with external magnetic field. | Ch 7 | Ch 4.3-4.5, 4.10-4.19 |
| 8 | Kinetic description. From kinetics to hydrodynamics. Landau damping. | Ch 8 | Ch 7.1-7.6 |
| 9 | Microinstabilities. Beam instability. | Ch 9 | Ch 6.6 |
| 10* | Nonlinear phenomena: first concepts. | Ch 10 | |
Lecture Notes (in working)
