Programme / general topics
Introduction
Energy for future centuries
Thermonuclear burn criteria
European energy research and the place of fusion: motivation, status and outlook
Basic theory of magnetic confinement
Guiding centre motion
Fusion Machines
Confinement Concepts
Stellarators
How to operate a tokamak
Kinetic theory
Kinetic description of fusion plasmas
Equilibrium and Instabilities
Plasma equilibrium in tokamaks
MHD instabilities
Numerical MHD
Operational limits and limiting instabilities in tokamak machines
Neoclassical tearing modes
Edge localised modes
Kinetic wave theory
Kinetic theory of plasma waves: homogeneous plasma
Kinetic theory of plasma waves: inhomogeneous plasma
Numerical modelling of wave-particle interaction
Plasma heating and current drive
Fast particle heating
Plasma-wave coupling in various frequency domains
Ion cyclotron waves
Electron cyclotron waves
Current drive
Edge plasma physics and plasma-wall interaction
Plasma wall interaction in magnetically confined fusion plasmas
Transport processes in the plasma edge
Impurity transport and radiation
Stochastic edge plasmas - basics and applications
Erosion and deposition mechanisms in fusions plasmas
Recycling and transport of neutrals
High heat flux performance of wall materials
Laboratory experiments and devices to study plasma wall interaction
Transport theory
Classical transport in magnetized plasmas
Neoclassical transport theory
Anomalous transport
Experimental studies on anomalous transport in magnetically confined plasmas
Transport studies using perturbation experiments
Drift wave turbulence
Experimental results on radial electric fields and their importance for confinement
Numerical transport codes
Diagnostics
Introduction to diagnostics
Probe diagnostics for fusion devices
Laser-aided plasma diagnostics
Spectroscopy
Far infrared and microwave diagnostics
Atomic beam diagnostics
Diagnostics for erosion and deposition processes in fusion plasmas
Present state of fusion and glance at the future
Overview of tokamak results
Extrapolation to reactors
Reactor material problems, erosions/deposition, fuel inventory problems
Reactor studies and designs
Contact
Trilateral Euregio Cluster (TEC)
c/o Laboratory for Plasma Physics
Koninklijke Militaire School /
Ecole Royale Militaire
Association "Euratom – Belgian State"
B-1000 Brussels
BELGIUM
Tel. +32-2-7426572
Fax +32-2-7352421
Scientific Secretary
Ernesto Lerche
Tel. +32-2-7426586
Chairman
Dirk Van Eester
Tel. +32-2-7426587
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