<p>Lecture, two to four hours; outside study, four to eight hours. Designed for graduate mechanical and aerospace engineering students. Advanced treatment of subjects selected from research areas in fusion science and engineering, such as instabilities in burning plasmas, alternate fusion confinement concepts, inertial confinement fusion, fission-fusion hybrid systems, and fusion reactor safety. May be repeated for credit with topic change. S/U grading.</p>

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

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General Catalog

Special Topics in Fusion Physics, Engineering, and Technology

MECH&AE 239H

2 to 4 units