Plasma Theory 2
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
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02TPLA2 | Z,ZK | 5 | 3+1 | Czech |
- Lecturer:
- Petr Kulhánek (guarantor), Jan Mlynář
- Tutor:
- Petr Kulhánek (guarantor), Jan Mlynář
- Supervisor:
- Department of Physics
- Synopsis:
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Students will become familiar with plasma wavws and instabilities. The second part will be devoted to statistical description of the plasma processes.
- Requirements:
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Knowledge of basic course of physics
02TEF1,2 Theoretical physics 1,2
02TPLA1 Plasma Theory I
- Syllabus of lectures:
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1. Farada rotation
2. whistler modes
3. HF permittivity tensor
4. Buneman instability
5. RT and KH instabilities, other instabilities
6. Kruskal solution
7. Statistical description of the plasma
8. Boltzmann equation and its momenta
9. transport phenomena
10. Onsager realitons
11. Fokker-Planck equation
12. plasma collisions
13. runaway electrons
14. microinstabilities, Landau dampling
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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corresponds withe the outline of the lectura
- Study Objective:
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Honourable
- Study materials:
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[1] P. Kulhánek: Úvod do teorie plazmatu; AGA 2011
[2] P. Kulhánek: Vybrané kapitoly z teoretické fyziky; AGA 2017
[3] T. H. Stix: Waves in Plasmas Springer, 2006.
[4]. P. Kulhánek: Vybrané kapitoly z fyziky plazmatu (https://www.aldebaran.cz/studium/vkpl.pdf), 2019
- Note:
- Further information:
- www.aldebaran.cz/studium/tpla/
- Time-table for winter semester 2020/2021:
- Time-table is not available yet
- Time-table for summer semester 2020/2021:
- Time-table is not available yet
- The course is a part of the following study plans:
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- Fyzika a technika termojaderné fúze (compulsory course of the specialization)