The release of thermonuclear energy by inertial confinement : ways towards ignition /
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Author / Creator: | Winterberg, Friedwardt, 1929- |
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Imprint: | Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 404 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11284673 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction. 1.1. Bibliography for chapter 1
- 2. Nuclear fission and fusion reactions. 2.1. Nuclear binding energies. 2.2. Nuclear reactions. 2.3. Fission chain reactions. 2.4. Thermonuclear reactions. 2.5. Fusion chain reactions. 2.6. Fission-fusion chain reactions. 2.7. Bibliography for chapter 2
- 3. The thermonuclear plasma. 3.1. Ionization temperature. 3.2. Plasma equation of state. 3.3. Microscopic plasma theory. 3.4. Debye-length. 3.5. Macroscopic plasma theory. 3.6. Magnetohydrodynamics of thermonuclear plasmas. 3.7. Electrostatic and electromagnetic plasma disturbances. 3.8. Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities. 3.9. Radiation pressure. 3.10. Equation of state for cold matter. 3.11. Bibliography for chapter 3
- 4. Collision processes in thermonuclear plasmas. 4.1. Collision cross sections and mean free path. 4.2. Electrical conductivity. 4.3. Heat conduction. 4.4. Viscosity. 4.5. Energy gain of cold ions by hot electrons. 4.6. Energy loss of hot ions by cold electrons. 4.7. Transport coefficients in the presence of a strong magnetic field. 4.8. Collective collision
- the two-stream instability. 4.9. Plasma radiation. 4.10. Radiative plasma cooling and collapse. 4.11. Stopping cross section of ions in cold matter. 4.12. Magnetic Bremsstrahlung. 4.13. Radiation losses near a wall. 4.14. Integrated heat conduction losses of a magnetized plasma cylinder. 4.15. Electron run-away. 4.16. Bibliography for chapter 4.