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Spheromaks are easily formed, self-organized magnetized plasma configurations that have intrigued plasma physicists. Sometimes called magnetic vortices, magnetic smoke rings, or plasmoids, spheromaks first attracted attention as a possible controlled thermonuclear plasma configuration scheme, but are now known to have many other applications. This text begins with a review of the basic concepts of magnetohydrodynamics and toroidal magnetic configurations, then provides a detailed exposition of the 3D topological concepts underlying spheromak physics, namely magnetic helicity, Taylor relaxation, force-free equilibria, and tilt stability. It then examines spheromak formation techniques, driven and isolated configurations, dynamo concepts, practical experimental issues, diagnostics, and a number of applications. The book concludes by showing how spheromak ideas are closely related to the physics of solar prominences and interplanetary magnetic clouds.

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• Full title: Spheromaks: A Practical Application Of Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamos And Plasma Self-organization
• Author: Paul M. Bellan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 356
• EAN: 9781860941412
• ISBN: 1860941419
• ID: 05121547
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Weight: 630 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 155 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. January 2000

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