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Title
DEDICATION
CERTIFICATE
DECLARATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
preface
CONTENTS
I Introduction
I Waves and Instabilities
2 Fluid and Kinetic Instabilities
3 Longitudinal and Transverse Instabilities
3.1 Micro vs Macro
3.2 Absolute and Convective Instabilities
3.3 Classification on the basis of Free energy
1.Streaming instabilities
2.Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities
3.Universal instabilities
4.Kinetic instabilities
4 Ion Cyclotron Waves
4.1 Ion Cyclotron waves in fusion plasmas
4.2 Summary of ion cyclotron wawes
4.3 Ion cyclotron waves in space plasmas
5 Alfven waves
5.1 Physical properties of Alfven Waves
5.2 Theoretical Approximat ions
5.3 Alfven waves in space plasmas
6 References
II Near perpendicular propagation of ion cyclotron waves in ananti - loss cone plasma
1 Introduction
2 The Dielectric Tensor
3 The ordering scheme
4 Expressions for the dielectric tensor elements
5 The Dispersion Relation
6 Discussion
7 Expression for Growth rate
8 Results
9 Conclusions
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
References
III Electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in an anti - losa cone pbma -Parallel propagation
1 Introduction
2 The General Dispersion Relation
3 Dispersion relation for the low -β case
4 Results
5 Extension to high-β plasmas
6 Results
7 Conclusions
8 References
IV The influence of warm helium ions on ion cyclotron wave propagation in amulti-ion plasma
1 Introduction
2 The dispersion relation
3 Dispersion relation for the low-beta case
4 Results
5 Extension to high -β1 plasmas
6 Results
7 Conclusion
8 References
V A Purely Growing mode in a Low-Beta Anti-Loss Cone Plasma
1 Introduction
2 The Dispersion Relation
3 Dispersion Relation in MMulSpecies Plasmas
3.1 Two - ion plasma
3.2 Two electron plasma
4 Discussion
5 Results
6 Conclusions
7 References
VI Stability of a purely growing mode
1 Introduction
2 Expression for Growth/Damping rate
2.1 Low-β case
2.2 Discussion
2.3 High β plasmas
3 Results
3.1 Low β case
3.2 High - β case
4 Conclusion