Guest G. Electron Cyclotron Heating of Plasmas

Wiley-VCH, 2009, 253 pagesAuthored by a highly regarded plasma scientist, this book fills the gap for a topical reference and source with a professional audience in mind. While the use of this critical method at the international fusion reactor, ITER, is covered in detail, the monograph also includes planetary magnetospheres and plasma sources for commercial applications.
The goal of the present work is to collect in one place most of the basic components of the science of ECH as a resource for present and future students and researchers in the physics of high energy density, relativistic-electron plasmas, as well as for scientists and engineers who are seeking to develop more utilitarian applications of ECH. In the early chapters of the book, emphasis is given to the underlying fundamental physics that governs the outcome of any particular ECH experiment.
Later chapters use the published results from various experiments to examine the ways in which these underlying phenomena work in collaboration to determine the properties of ECH plasmas.
With exercises and solutions for additional use as course reading.