本书旨在介绍优选的托卡马克稳定性理论，从求导的格拉多—沙弗拉诺夫方程和各种环形通量坐标的构造开始讲起，用解析托卡马克平衡理论证明了沙弗拉诺夫位移以及环形箍力是如何通过托卡马克的垂直磁场应用被平衡的，还介绍了各种托卡马克约束模式的原理分类，如低约束模式、高约束模式和改进之后的能量约束模式等内容。本书的很后还讨论了各种核心和边缘稳定性（运输现象）的物理解释，如输运垒、非局域输运、边缘局域模式、团迹输运和边缘谐波振荡。

Preface
Acknowledgments
Author biography
1 Tokamak MHD equilibrium
1.1 The Grad-Shafranov equation
1.2 Toroidal flux coordinates
1.3 The tokamak force balance:the hoop force
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2 Ideal MHD instabilities
2.1 The global MHD spectrum
2.2 Internal and external global MHD modes
2.3 Radially localized modes:the Mercier criterion
2.4 The ballooning modes and ballooning representation
2.5 The peeling and free boundary ballooning modes
2.6 The toroidal Alfven eigenmodes
2.7 The kinetically driven MHD modes
2.8 Discussion
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3 Resistive MHD instabilities
3.1 The resistive MHD theory of Glasser,Greene and Johnson
3.2 The resistive MHD ballooning modes
3.3 The tearing mode and its coupling to interchange-type modes
3.4 Discussion:neoclassical tearing modes,etc
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4 Gyrokinetie theory
4.1 The general gyrokinetic formalism and equilibrium
4.2 The electrostatic gyrokinetic equation
4.3 Electrostatic drift waves
4.3.1 The slab-like branch
4.3.2 The toroidal branch
4.4 The electromagnetic gyrokinetic equation
4.5 FLR effects on the interchange modes
4.6 The kinetic ballooning mode theory
4.7 Discussion
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5 Physical interpretations of experimental observations
5.1 The tokamak confinement modes
5.2 Enhanced electron transport
5.3 Transport barriers
5.4 Nonlocal transport
5.5 The edge localized modes
5.6 Blob transport
5.7 Edge harmonic oscillations
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6 Concluding remarks
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Appendix A Derivation of the gyrokinetics equations
A.1 The first harmonic solution of the gyrokinetic equation
A.2 The gyrophase-averaged gyrokinetic equation
A.3 The gyrokinetic vorticity equation
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