MHD Stability and Operational Limits

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Explores MHD stability, operational limits, fusion device performance, and control mechanisms.

Explores Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability, ideal MHD solutions, 'hairy ball' theorem, and boundary conditions.

Covers MHD equilibrium configurations, including tokamak and stellarator concepts, force balance equations, and safety factors.

Covers high-confinement regimes, induced current density, fusion plasma self-sustainment, and MHD ideal conditions.

Explores MHD equilibrium configurations in 2D, focusing on tokamaks and stellarators for magnetic confinement.

Explores the main elements and properties of a tokamak, including shaping, safety factor, equilibrium, and the JET tokamak.

Explores burning plasma specifics, fast ions role, losses, MHD modes, turbulence, Alfvén waves interaction, and burn stability.

Explores stellarators as alternatives to tokamaks, discussing 3D magnetic configurations, pros and cons, history, and other confinement concepts.

Covers the equations for static ideal MHD equilibrium and force-free and force-balanced equilibria in plasma physics.

Explores the progress in magnetic confinement fusion, roadmaps to fusion power, ITER components, and the path towards DEMO.