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Description of the processes by which mass, momentum,
and energy are transported in plasmas, with special
reference to magnetic confinement fusion applications.
The Fokker-Planck collision operator and its limiting
forms, as well as collisional relaxation and equilibrium,
are considered in detail. Special applications include
a Lorentz gas, Brownian motion, alpha particles, and
runaway electrons. The Braginskii formulation of classical
collisional transport in general geometry based on
the Fokker-Planck equation is presented.
Neoclassical transport in tokamaks, which is sensitive
to the details of the magnetic geometry, is considered
in the high (Pfirsch-Schluter), low (banana) and intermediate
(plateau) regimes of collisionality.
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