Self-Organization of Hot Plasmas

Preface to the English Edition.- Preface to the Russian Edition.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Variational principles for canonical profiles in a tokamak.- 3 A possible approach to the canonical profiles in stellarators.- 4 Theoretical limitations for scaling laws and transport coefficients.- 5 Linear version of the Canonical profiles transport model (CPTM).- 6 Nonlinear version of the canonical profiles transport model (CPTM) for improved confinement regimes.

Prof. Y.N.Dnestrovskii is a worldwide recognized authority in the field of simulations of fusion plasmas. His ideas have contributed to experiments as well as theory. He is the author of the first one-dimensional model of plasma transport presented at the renowned fusion conference in Dubna, 1969. He designed a flexible transport code to simulate fusion plasmas, incorporating his ideas on plasma self-organization. This code system ASTRA is in use in all major fusion laboratories in the world. He is a member of the famous Tokamak Physics Institute of the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, where under the leadership of the legendary Lev Artsimovitch, the major developments took place for the tokamak. Also widely are known his works on the propagation of electromagnetic waves in plasmas. In particular, he has shown for the first time that the O-mode of the first harmonics and the X-mode of the second harmonics have the highest absorption in plasma. This important result is applied now in many tokamak experiments to efficiently heat the plasmas with electromagnetic waves in the range 70-150GHz using gyrotrons.

During the eighties he wrote together with Professor D.P. Kostomarov the monograph "Numerical simulation of plasmas" which had two Russian (1982, 1993) and one Springer (1986) edition, in English. He has participated in many International Conferences on Plasma Physics. Since 1995 he leads (from the Russian side) the collaboration between the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in Culham, UK and the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, Russia.

At the major bi-annual conference in fusion research, the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference he was invited in 2008 (~ 800 participants) to summarize the theoretical works presented there. His report is published in the leading journal Nuclear Fusion ("Summary of reports presented to magnetic confinement theory and modelling (TH) section: main ideas and achievements", Nucl. Fusion 49, 104003 (2009)).