Lecture Notes & Videos

Lecture Notes

Overview and Short History of the Tokamak; How to Form a Profile

Lecture 1a: Overview, Part a

Lecture 1b: Overview, Part b

Transport I: Basic Physics — Pipes and Plasmas, Mixing Length Models, Scalings

Lecture 2a: Transport Heuristics Part a - Pipe Flow

Lecture 2b: Transport Heuristics Part b - MLT for Convection

Lecture 2c: Transport Heuristics Part c - Basic Tokamak Confinement Scalings

Notes: Instabilities - Convection

Notes: Instabilities - Rotating Convection

Notes: Linear Response - Kubo Formalism 1

Notes: Linear Response - Kubo Formalism 2

Transport II : Dynamical Models — A Selective Study, Part I - Potential Vorticity, Drift-Zonal Flow Turbulence and Reduced EM Models

Lecture 3a: PV and Drift Waves, Part 1a

Lecture 3b: PV and Drift Waves, Part 1b

Lecture 3c: PV and Drift Waves, Part 1c, and Electromagnetics 1a

Lecture 3d: Electromagnetics, Part 1b, and Zonal Flows

GFD Mini-Course - Salmon

Transport III: Dynamical Models — A Selective Study, Part 2 - ITG Turbulence, PSFI, Fueling and Density Profile Formation

Lecture 4a: ITG Phenomenology and Dynamics

Lecture 4b: More ITG Theory, Pinch and Ion Mixing Model

Lecture 4c: TEP, Homogenization and Density Profile Formation

Lecture 4d: Electron Drift Waves, TEM - Energetics and Transport

Lecture 4e: EDW Dynamics and Evolution - TEM 1

Transport IV: Geometry: Shear, Toroidicity; Shearing Dynamics, Zonal Mode Dynamics

Lecture 5a: TEM, cont'd; Geometry 1: ExB and Magnetic Shear, and Quasimodes

Lecture 5b: Geometry 2: Quasimodes, Toroidicity and Ballooning Mode Representation

Lecture 5c: Saturation, Zonal Modes, Modulational Instability and Shearing

Lecture 5c: Supplement on Wave Adiabatic Theory

Confinement Transitions, Especially L-H Transition

Lecture 6: DW-ZF Predator-Prey System; L-H Transition

Lecture 6: Annotated Version

Lecture Notes on Predator-Prey Model - Annotated

Momentum Transport and Intrinsic Rotation

Lecture 7: Intrinsic Rotation and Momentum Transport

Density Limit and Greenwald Scaling; SOL Width and Heat Load Scaling; Plasma Wall Interaction

Lecture 8a, Part 1: Edge Turbulence and Density Limit

Lecture 8b, Part 2: Edge Turbulence and Density Limit

Lecture 8: Annotated Version

Lecture 9: Boundary Physics notes - by George Tynan

Lecture 9: Boundary Physics slides - by George Tynan

Student Lecture Summaries

Week 1: What is a Tokamak and Where is it Going? - Notes By Rebecca Masline

Week 2: Mixing and Transport in Pipes and Plasmas - Notes by Haotian Mao

Week 3: Models 1, from PV to Drift Waves - Notes by Mingyun Cao

Week 4: PV, Drift Waves, Reduced MHD, cont'd - Notes by Samantha Chen

Week 5: ITG Dynamics, PSFI, Thermoelectric Pinch - Notes by Alexey Knyazev

Week 6, Part a: TEP Pinch and Homogenization - Notes by Wenhao Wang

Week 6, Part b: Electron Drift Wave Dynamics 1 - Notes by Wenhao Wang

Week 7: Drift Wave, TEM Dynamics II, Geometry 1 - Shearing and Decorrelation - Notes by Samantha Chen

Week 8: Geometry II - Toroidicity, and Saturation by Zonal Flow Interaction - Notes by Mingyun Cao

Week 9: LH Transition and Intrinsic Rotation - Notes by Alexey Knyazev

Week 10: Edge Physics and Density Limits - Notes by Rebecca Masline

Week 11: Tynan Lecture on Edge, SOL and PMI - Notes by Rebecca Masline

Lecture Videos

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