Derivation of fluid equations; CGL, MCD; equilibrium in the fluid plasma; energy principle; Rayleigh-Taylor, two-stream, and firehose instabilities; applications to lCF and open- and closed-line magnetic confinement systems; nonlinear instability theory.
Restriction: permission of instructor.
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