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TRANSPORT
Refers to processes which reasonheat energy, or particles, or something else, to flow out of the plasma and cease being confined. Diffusion partly determines the course of transport. Energy losses from a plasma due to transport processes are a central problem in fusionenergy research.
See: classical transport, neoclassical transport, anomalous tranport, diffusion, ambipolar diffusion, Bohm diffusion, classical diffusion, neoclassical diffusion, anomalous diffusion, energy transport, ripple transport.