Plasma Physics

This is a 4 credit course for PhD course work in Physics.

Syllabus:

Plasma Orbit Theory (F F Chen + A R Choudhuri)

Fluid dynamics and Magneto-Fluids (A R Choudhuri + R Kulsrud)

Waves in Plasmas (R O Dendy)

Nonlinear Theory of Plasmas (Strogatz + Krall & Travelpiece)

Theory of Instability and Turbulence (Goldston & Rutherford)

Collisional Processes in Plasmas (M W Kunz)

Plasma Kinetic Theory (D R Nicholson)

Plasma Applications (Hutchinson)

Nuclear Reactor Design (Goldston (notes) + Wesson + Helander (notes))

Texts:

1. Francis F Chen: Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion [Book]

2. Arnab Rai Choudhuri: The Physics of Fluids and Plasmas [Book]

3. Russell M Kulsrud: Plasma Physics for Astrophysics [Book]

4. Richard O Dendy: Plasma Dynamics [Book]

5. Steven H Strogatz: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos [Book]

6. N A Krall & A W Travelpiece: Principles of Plasma Physics [Book]

7. R J Goldston & P H Rutherford: Introduction to Plasma Physics [Book]

8. Matthew W Kunz: Lecture Notes on Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics [Webpage]

9. Dwight Roy Nicholson: Introduction to Plasma Theory [Book]

10. I H Hutchinson: Principles of Plasma Diagnostics [Book]

11. John Wesson: Tokamaks [Book]

12. Per Helander: Theory of plasma confinement in non-axisymmetric magnetic fields [Review Article]

Reference: 

1. Uriel Frisch: Turbulence - The Legacy of A N Kolmogorov [Book]

2. Gurnett & Bhattacharjee: Introduction to Plasma Physics [Book]

3. Paul M Bellan: Fundamentals of Plasma Physics [Book]

4. Thomas H Stix: Waves in Plasmas [Book]

5. Stephen Jardin: Computational Methods in Plasma Physics [Book]

6. Roscoe B White: The Theory of Toroidally Confined Plasmas [Book]

7. John Krommes: (Lecture notes at Princeton)

8. Greg Hammett: (Lecture notes at Princeton)

9. Rob Goldston: (Lecture notes at Princeton)