A finite element method with overlapping meshes for free-boundary axisymmetric plasma equilibria in realistic geometries

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2017.01.006zbMath1375.78031OpenAlexW2410305148MaRDI QIDQ1685270

Francesca Rapetti, Holger Heumann

Publication date: 13 December 2017

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.01.006

zbMATH Keywords

linear finite elementsoverlapping meshesaxisymmetric plasma equilibria in tokamakscubic finite elementsdomain decomposition mortar element method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Technical applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A55) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

Related Items (6)

Tokamak free-boundary plasma equilibrium computation using finite elements of class \(\mathcal{C}^0\) and \(\mathcal{C}^1\) within a mortar element approach ⋮ Surrogate approximation of the Grad-Shafranov free boundary problem via stochastic collocation on sparse grids ⋮ A hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin solver for the Grad-Shafranov equation ⋮ Tokamak free-boundary plasma equilibrium computations in presence of non-linear materials ⋮ An Adaptive Discontinuous Petrov--Galerkin Method for the Grad--Shafranov Equation ⋮ A Parallel Cut-Cell Algorithm for the Free-Boundary Grad--Shafranov Problem

Uses Software

• iFEM
• CEDRES++
• TOPICS

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