Programme / general topics
Introduction
Energy resources and reactor safety
Thermonuclear burn criteria
Confinement concepts
Magnetic fields and plasmas
Guiding centre motion
Tokamaks
Stellarators
Plasma equilibrium in tokamaks
Operational limits
Theoretical description of plasmas
Kinetic and gyro-kinetic description
Macroscopic description
Waves and instabilities
Propagation and absorption in confined plasmas
Ideal and resistive MHD instabilities
Micro-instabilities
Plasma heating and current drive
Neutral beam injection
Wave heating (ECRH, ICRH)
Current drive (ECRH, ICRH, Lower Hybrid, NBI)
Transport in tokamaks
Classical, neoclassical and anomalous transport
Fluctuations in tokamaks
Degraded and improved confinement
Transport codes
Diagnostics
Microwave, optical and spectroscopic diagnostics for the plasma core and edge, equilibrium and fluctuations
Methods of surface analysis
Edge plasma physics
Plasma-wall interaction and wall conditioning
Fusion ash removal, recycling
Radiation phenomena at the edge and in the divertor
Divertor concepts
Basics of material science
Materials for the first wall
Plasma facing components
Present status of fusion
Status and outlook of fusion research
Scaling and extrapolation to reactors
ITER and DEMO
Contact
Trilateral Euregio Cluster (TEC)
c/o DIFFER - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
De Zaale 20
5612 AJ Eindhoven
The Netherlands
CMSS Chair
Dr. Hugo J. de Blank
Tel. +31 403334942
CMSS Secretary
Ms. M.D. van der Vlis
Tel. +31 403334749
Email: cmss.secretary@fz-juelich.de
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