Description
The book "Instabilities in a Confined Plasma" focuses on the theoretical aspects of plasma instabilities in confined systems. It is a significant contribution to the study of plasma instabilities in both fusion devices and astrophysical phenomena. The book covers various types of instabilities, including MHD modes, internal kink modes, and Alfven eigenmodes, in different confinement systems and regimes.
Instabilities in a Confined Plasma is entirely devoted to a theoretical exposition of the subject of plasma instabilities in confined systems. The book is an important contribution to the study of plasma instabilities, not only in fusion devices such as the Tokamak but also in astrophysical phenomena. It covers toroidal confinement systems, internal MHD modes, small-scale MHD instabilities, MHD internal kink modes, MHD modes in collisionless and neoclassical regimes, drift-MHD modes, external kink modes, and Alfven eigenmodes.