Contents

Plasma Physics Reports

Vol. 43, No. 4, 2017

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Plasma Physics Reports ISSN 1063-780X.

Tokamaks

Turbulent-Convective Block for the ASTRA Transport Code

A. Yu. Dnestrovskij, V. P. Pastukhov and N. V. Chudin p. 405  abstract

Characteristics of Major Plasma Discharge Disruption in the Globus-M Spherical Tokamak

N. V. Sakharov, V. K. Gusev, A. D. Iblyaminova, A. A. Kavin, S. N. Kamenshchikov, G. S. Kurskiev, K. M. Lobanov, A. B. Mineev, M. I. Patrov, Yu. V. Petrov and S. Yu. Tolstyakov p. 422  abstract

Hamiltonian Formalism in the Problem on the Modification of the Current Density Profile during the Development of Tearing Instability in a Tokamak

A. A. Skovoroda p. 433  abstract

Stellarators

Determination of the Power Absorbed during Plasma ECR Heating from Diamagnetic Measurements

L. M. Kovrizhnykh p. 439  abstract

Plasma Dynamics

Study of the Expansion Dynamics of the Plasma of a Thin Aluminum Foil under the Action of Soft X-Ray Emission

K. N. Mitrofanov, V. V. Aleksandrov, E. V. Grabovski, A. N. Gritsuk, I. N. Frolov, A. V. Branitsky and Ya. N. Laukhin p. 444  abstract

Magnetic Susceptibility and Landau Diamagnetism of Quantum Collisional Plasma

A. V. Latyshev and A. A. Yushkanov p. 458  abstract

Oscillations and Waves in Plasma

Nonlinear Heavy-Ion-Acoustic Waves in an Adiabatic Collisionless Bi-Ion Plasma

M. A. Hossen, M. M. Rahman, M. R. Hossen and A. A. Mamun p. 464  abstract

Plasma Diagnostics

Specificity of Probe Measurements in Diffuse Plasmas of Dense Gases in Strong Electric Fields

Yu. S. Akishev, M. A. Medvedev, A. P. Napartovich, A. V. Petryakov, N. I. Trushkin and A. G. Shafikov p. 472  abstract

Plasma Diagnostics from Intensities of Resonance Line Series of He-like Ions

S. N. Ryazantsev, I. Yu. Skobelev, A. Ya. Faenov, A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo, T. A. Pikuz and S. A. Pikuz p. 480  abstract

Plasma Accelerators

On the Longitudinal Distribution of Electric Field in the Acceleration Zones of Plasma Accelerators and Thrusters with Closed Electron Drift

V. P. Kim p. 486  abstract

Oscillations and Waves in Plasma

Nonlinear Propagation of Ion-Acoustic Waves through the Burgers Equation in Weakly Relativistic Plasmas

M. G. Hafez, M. R. Talukder and M. Hossain Ali p. 499  abstract

Applied Physics

On the Role of Electron Impact in an Atmospheric-Pressure Microwave Discharge in Liquid n-Heptane

Yu. A. Lebedev, A. V. Tatarinov and I. L. Epstein p. 510  abstract