Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation, Zhejiang University

IFTS Intensive Course on Advanced Plasma Physics-Spring 2012 Nonlinear charged particle dynamics in tokamaks: theory and applications Announcement

Lecture Plan and Teaching Material

Abstract: This Intensive Course is articulated in lectures, which are the natural continuation of the IFTS Intensive Course on Advanced Plasma Physics-Spring 2011 on Non-linear charged particle dynamics. Most of the relevant introductory material can be found in the aforementioned Lecture Notes and in the Lectures Notes of the second part of that course, given by Prof. Liu Chen, focusing on non-linear plasma theory. Useful source of information is also the book by A. J. Lichtenberg and M. A. Lieberman, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, Second Edition, Springer (2010).
 

Main areas that will be explored are:
i) Guiding center particle motion in toroidal systems and integral invariants. (Lecture 1)
ii) Hamiltonian mappings for toroidal systems: numerical implementation for synthetic diagnostics and analytic forms of Hamiltonian mappings for theoretical studies. (Lecture 2)
iii) Applications and examples of Hamiltonian mappings from previous courses. (Lecture 3)
iv) Cases of practical interest: the nonlinear BAE problem and the nonlinear TAE problem from recent hybrid simulation results. (Lecture 4)
v) Frequency sweeping, phase locking and supra-thermal particle transport: heuristic models for understanding nonlinear behaviors in nonuniform plasmas. (Lecture 5)
vi) From local to global nonlinear dynamic descriptions. (Lecture 6)

Lecture Notes: Available in electronic form. At the end of each lecture and during the Q&A time, a list of specific reading material is given explicitly. Should you have difficulty in finding literatures and papers, please contact me at fulvio.zonca@enea.it.
 
Exercises: In the lecture notes, Exercises (E) of various difficulty levels are suggested. These are meant to be important part of the lectures themselves.
 

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