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RELAXATION DYNAMICS IN LABORATORY AND ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS


CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER
Patrick H. Diamond, Xavier Garbet, Philippe Ghendrih and Yanick Sarazin
i
In memory of …
Prof. Masahiro Wakatani and Fusion Research in His Days
K. Itoh
3
Magnetic relaxation and self-organization in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas
An Introduction to Mean Field Dynamo Theory
D. W. Hughes and S. M. Tobias
15
Origin, Structure and Stability of Astrophysical MHD Jets
P.-Y. Longaretti
49
Turbulence and turbulent transport - the agents of relaxation and structure formation
A Tutorial on Basic Concepts in MHD Turbulence and Turbulent Transport
P. H. Diamond, S.-I. Itoh and K. Itoh
119
Intermittency Like Phenomena in Plasma Turbulence
A. Das, P. Kaw and R. Jha
151
Nonlinear Cascades and Spatial Structure of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
W.-C. Müller and R. Grappin
187
Scale Covariance and Scale-ratio Covariance in Turbulent Front Propagation
A. Pocheau
219
Transport bifurcations and relaxation
Transport Barrier Relaxations in Tokamak Edge Plasmas
P. Beyer
255
Dynamics of Edge Localized Modes
X. Garbet, P. Ghendrih, Y. Sarazin, P. Beyer, G. Fuhr-Chaudier and S. Benkadda
269
On the Onset of Collapse Events in Toroidal Plasmas Turbulence Trigger
K. Itoh, S.-I. Itoh, M. Yagi, S. Toda and A. Fukuyama
295
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