Troyon and J. Vaclavic
The book on the theory of fusion plasmas includes 55 papers in 703 pages. Contrary to the proceedings of the corresponding workshop in 1987 these papers are not divided into different sections. Therefore it is dificult for the reader to survey the papers and to understand how they are related to different topics.
Most of the papers are concerned with plasma physical problems in tokamaks whereas alternative fusion devices like stellarators, torsatrons, magnetic traps and reversed field pinches are investigated in 5 papers only. Processes in tokamaks and stallarators are compared in 2 papers. In 20 papers general theories are developed without being valid for special fusion devices. Among other things the authors consider the following important physical problems:
-Theory of anomalous transport in tokamaks and neoclassical impurity transport including -Drift wave turbulence in sheared magnetic fields and turbulent plasmas in reversed field pinches; -Ion-temperature gradient driven modes and the electron cyclotron emission; -ICRF sawtooth stabilization in TFTR and CIT and ECRF plasma heating in tokamaks; -Bootstrap current and ECCD in W7-AS and currcnt drive in ion cyclotron and lower hybrid frequency ranges in toroidal fusion devices;
-Alpha particle confinement and nonlinear stabilization of MHD modes driven by alpha particles. high scientific level and can be recommended for spccialists of therrnonuclcar fusion plasma research. bifurcations and coupling with rippling modes; Analyticdl as well as numerical solution methods are employed. Most of the contributions are of a