**Meet the editor**

Dr Linjin Zheng specializes in both analytic theory and large-scale numerical computation of magnetically confined plasmas. He received his M. S. degree from The University of Science and Technology of China and Ph. D. from Institute of Physics – Beijing, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently working at Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin. He

published more than hundred scientific papers for examples in Phys. Rev. Letts, Phys. Letts, Nucl. Fusion, Phys. of Plasmas, and major conferences. His researches cover both ideal/resistive MHD and kinetic theories for MHD modes and drift waves, etc. His major contributions with his colleagues include the discovery of 2nd toroidal Alfven egenmodes, reformulation of gyrokinetic theory, development of physical interpretation of so-called edge localized modes, etc. He also developed the AEGIS and AEGIS-K codes.

Contents

**Preface VII** 

Linjin Zheng

Ravi Samtaney

Pablo L. Garcia-Martinez

**High-Beta Compact Toroid 117**  Tomohiko Asai and Tsutomu Takahashi

Gou Nishida and Noboru Sakamoto

Chapter 8 **Magnetohydrodynamic Rotating Flow of a** 

M.A. Rana, Akhlaq Ahmed and Rashid Qamar

Chapter 6 **Review of the Magnetohydrodynamic Waves and** 

Chapter 5 **MHD Activity in an Extremely** 

Ivan Zhelyazkov

Chapter 7 **Hamiltonian Representation of** 

Chapter 2 **Sub-Fluid Models in** 

Chapter 1 **Overview of Magnetohydrodynamics** 

**Theory in Toroidal Plasma Confinement 1** 

**Dissipative Magneto-Hydrodynamics 35** 

Chapter 4 **Dynamics of Magnetic Relaxation in Spheromaks 85** 

Massimo Materassi, Giuseppe Consolini and Emanuele Tassi

Chapter 3 **Implicit Numerical Methods for Magnetohydrodynamics 59** 

**Their Stability in Solar Spicules and X-Ray Jets 135** 

**Magnetohydrodynamics for Boundary Energy Controls 167** 

**Fourth Grade Fluid Between Two Parallel Infinite Plates 189** 
