RF Plasma Heating in Toroidal Fusion Devices

1. Plasma Heating in Toroidal Fusion Devices.- 1.1. Conditions for Energy Production in Quasistationary Systems.- 1.2 Basic Concepts of Plasma Confinement in Tokamaks.- 1.3. Experimental Research on Tokamaks.- 1.4. Stellarators.- 1.5. Plasma Heating Efficiency.- 1.6. Specifications for Heating Techniques.- 2. The Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Plasmas.- 2.1. Basic Concepts and the Equations of Plasma Electrodynamics.- 2.2. The Dielectric Tensor of Cold Plasmas.- 2.3. Oscillations and Waves in Cold Plasmas.- 2.4. Wave Propagation in Tokamaks in the Approximation of Geometric Optics.- 2.5. Role of the Thermal Motion of Plasma Particles (k ? B0).- 2.6. Transverse Spatial Dispersion (k ? B0).- 2.7. Effect of Spatial Dispersion on Resonances.- 2.8. Propagation of Waves with ? " ??Be?. The Lower Hybrid Resonance.- 2.9. Propagation of Waves with Frequencies ? ? ?Be and ? " ?Be.- 2.10. Effect of Real Plasma Inhomogeneities on the Propagation of Waves in Toroidal Systems.- 2.11. Distortion of the Distribution Functions of Charged Particles in the Field of a Monochromatic Wave.- 2.12. Quasilinear Theory of Wave Damping.- 2.13. Stochastic Ion Heating in the Lower Hybrid Resonance Frequency Range.- 3. Electron Cyclotron Heating.- 3.1. Basic Heating Schemes and Numerical Simulations.- 3.2. Heating Techniques.- 3.3. Experimental Results.- 3.4. Summary of Research.- 4. Lower Hybrid Heating.- 4.1. Theoretical Model Ill.- 4.2. Heating Techniques.- 4.3. Experimental Studies.- 4.4. Summary of Research.- 5. Ion Cyclotron Heating.- 5.1. The Physics of Wave Propagation for ? ? ?Be. Principal Heating Schemes.- 5.2. Heating Techniques.- 5.3. Experimental Studies.- 5.4. Summary of Research.- 6. Alfvén Wave Heating.- 6.1. Physics of Alfvén Wave Heating.- 6.2. Experimental Studies.- 6.3. Prospects for Alfvén Wave Heating.- 7. A Comparison of Plasma Heating Techniques.- 7.1. Rf Heating.- 7.2. Neutral Beam Injection.- 7.3. Adiabatic Compression.- References.