Course Objectives
1. Understand transport processes in plasmas and their applications in computation and experiment.
2. Develop various transport/closure theories.

Syllabus
1. Basic ideas on transport processes
2. Landau (Fokker-Planck) kinetic equation
3. Plasma fluid equations (transport equations)
4. Braginskii's closure theory
5. Transport theory: Lorentz gas and Spitzer problem
6. Drift kinetic equation and neoclassical transport theory
7. Unified transport/closure theory (full moment approach)

Text: Handouts

Additional References:
1. Transport processes in plasmas, R. Balescu, 1988.
2. Collisional transport in magnetized plasmas, P. Helander and D. J. Sigmar, 2002.
3. Ionospheres, R. W. Schunk and A. F. Nagy, 2000.
4. Transport processes in a plasma, S. I. Braginskii, in Reviews of Plasma Physics, Vol. 1, p 205, 1965.
5. Theory of plasma transport in toroidal confinement systems, F. L. Hinton and R. D. Hazeltine, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 48, p. 239, 1976.