Numerical computation of the helical Chandrasekhar-Kendall modes

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2010.07.033MaRDI QIDQ630313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date 17 March 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2010.07.033

zbMATH Keywords

Chandrasekhar-Kendall modeseigen-value problemfinite difference discretizationmagnetic relaxationMHDreversed field pinchspherical tokamak

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary eigenvalue problems for ordinary differential equations (34B09) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90)

Review text

The solution to the eigenvalue problem of a force-free magnetic field yields Chandrasekhar-Kendall modes for prescribed boundary conditions. The author develops a numerical procedure of solving the corresponding differential equation for a helical force-free magnetic field that explicitly enforces the divergence free condition in the course of computation based on the second order finite difference scheme. The numerical example treats an axisymmetric torus and shows plots of the resulted helical eigenmodes, their properties and the accuracy of the applied computational procedure.

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