Chapter Nine: Plasma Transport

The importance of transport goes beyond the magnetic and inertia confinement in fusion application. The solar flare, for example, involves drastic activities of magnetic fields, energetic particles, and vortex flows to result in solar wind, solar prominence, sun spots, sun quake, and coronal mass ejection. Its impact on earth has been termed the space weather capable of affecting communication satellites and sensitive electronic devices, or even crippling the power grid. Its magnificent showing of aurora is often a northern delight…