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Hot Plasma, Fusion - NEVF121

Title:	Horké plazma, problematika fúze
Guaranteed by:	Department of Surface and Plasma Science (32-KFPP)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2021
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Additional information:	https://physics.mff.cuni.cz/kfpp/rozvrh.html

Guarantor:	doc. RNDr. Radek Plašil, Ph.D. prof. RNDr. Juraj Glosík, DrSc.

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Annotation -

Last update: RNDr. Štěpán Roučka, Ph.D. (28.01.2019)

The lecture covers the topic of high temperature plasma, fusion and corresponding diagnostic methods. High- temperature plasma: description, parameters, stability. Conductivity of highly ionized plasma. Fusion: fusion reactions, power balance, ignition, Lawson criterion. Confinement: magnetic confinement, inertial confinement. Fusion systems: Z-pinch, Tokamak, Stellarator. Plasma heating. Plasma instabilities. Hot plasma diagnostics: probes, spectroscopy, corpuscular methods. Plasma surface interactions. Current projects: COMPASS-D, ITER, NIF.

Course completion requirements - Czech

Last update: doc. RNDr. Jiří Pavlů, Ph.D. (14.06.2019)

Podmínkou zakončení předmětu je úspěšné složení zkoušky, tj. hodnocení zkoušky známkou "výborně", "velmi dobře" nebo "dobře". Zkouška musí být složena v období předepsaném harmonogramem akademického roku, ve kterém student předmět zapsal.

Literature -

Last update: T_KEVF (11.05.2012)

Auciello, O., Flamm D. L. (ed.): Plasma Diagnostics, Vol. I, Academic Press, Inc., 1989.

Chen F. F.: Úvod do fyziky plazmatu, Academia Praha 1984.

Wesson J.: Tokamaks, Clarendon Press, Oxford, Third Edition, 2004.

Teaching methods -

Last update: RNDr. Štěpán Roučka, Ph.D. (06.10.2020)

The lecture is conducted on-line in the winter semester 2020. For more information, see https://physics.mff.cuni.cz/kfpp/rozvrh.html

Requirements to the exam - Czech

Last update: doc. RNDr. Radek Plašil, Ph.D. (27.02.2018)

Zkouška je ústní a student dostává typicky dvě otázky ze sylabu předmětu v rozsahu, který byl prezentován na přednášce.

Syllabus -

Last update: RNDr. Štěpán Roučka, Ph.D. (28.01.2019)

1. High-temperature plasma
Magnetohydrodynamic approach: Ohm's law and its consequences. Stationary state - pinch effect, diffusion. Magnetohydrodynamical instabilities. Fusion: basic thermonuclear reactions, collisional and reactive cross-sections. Energy balance, ignition and Lawson criterion. Methods of confinement: confinement by a magnetic field, inertial systems.

2. Fusion systems
Z-pinch, Tokamak, Stellarator. Plasma heating: ohmic heating, high-frequency heating, neutral-beam injection. Working modes of tokamak. Problems of stability.

3. Hot plasma diagnostics
Probes, spectroscopy, corpuscular methods. Measurement of temperature and number density. Interaction of plasma with surfaces, processes in divertor region.

4. Status of important projects in the field
COMPASS-D, ITER, NIF and others. Actual problems.