Multiconstrained variational problems in magnetohydrodynamics: Equilibrium and slow evolution

DOI10.1016/S0021-9991(83)71107-1MaRDI QIDQ1802288zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bruce Turkington, Alexander Eydeland, Joel Spruck, Alexander Lipton

Publication date 8 August 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9991(83)71107-1

zbMATH Keywords

adiabatic compressionconvergenceenergy minimizationiterative algorithmplasma heatingprescribed flux and masstokamak

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Review text

A computational method is proposed for solving magnetohydrodynamical equilibrium problems with prescribed flux and mass within the magnetic surfaces that foliate the plasma. The classical variational principles, which express these problems in terms of energy minimization subject to infinite families of nonlinear, nonlocal constraints, are taken as the basis for a direct method of solution. A natural discretization of the classical constraint families is devised, and an iterative algorithm is developed to solve the resulting optimization problems. A convergence theory for the algorithm is established, and an effective numerical implementation of the method is presented for flux-conserving tokamak equilibria.

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