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Department of Theoretical Physics Department of Theoretical Physics

ao. Univ.-Prof. i. R. Dr. Klaus Schöpf ao. Univ.-Prof. i. R. Dr. Klaus Schöpf

705614

Physics of Nuclear Fusion

VO 2

2,5

weekly

annually

German

Gaining fundamental knowledge in plasma physics and understanding all the processes in a nuclear fusion reactor.

Role of fusion energy, Energy release in nuclear reactions; Activation of fusion reactions, fusion fuels, reaction rate, reaction time; processes in a fusion plasma; requirements for classical treatment, Debye length, Bremsstrahlung; Fusion plasma confinement: magnetic, electrical and inertial confinement; Motion of charged particles in force fields: cobined E and B-field, inhonogeneous B-field, drift motion, invariants of motion, cyclotron radiation; Bulk particle transport: continuity and diffusion, particle-fluid connection, kinetic description, global particle leakage; Transport in magnetized plasmas: Fokker-Planck equation; Fusion plasma energetics, methods of plasma heating, reactor dynamics, fusion ignition criterion and burn dynamics; Fusion reactor energetics, Lawson criterion, energy break-even, net energy production of a d-t tokamak; Open magnetic field confinement, magnetic flux surfaces, magnetic mirror, instabilities; Closed magnetic field confinement: tokamak, particle trapping, stellarator, spheromak; Muon catalyzed fusion; Fusion reactor blanket, first wall load, blanket neutronics, tritium breeding.

oral

Goldston, Rutherford, Introduction to Plasma Physics, IOP Publ., Philadelphia (1995) Harms, Schoepf, Miley, Principles of Fusion Energy, World Scientific, Singapore (2000) Räder et al., Kontrollierte Kernfusion, Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart (1981) Comprehensive manuscript (in German) is provided electronically.

Di, 13:30 - 15:00, SR 2/36