Computation of magnetic coordinates and action-angle variables

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(91)90144-AMaRDI QIDQ2277791zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. H. Reiman, Neil Pomphrey

Publication date 1991

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(91)90144-a

zbMATH Keywords

action-angle variablesalgorithminvariant toriiterative methodmagnetic fieldmagnetic surfacestime- dependent Hamiltoniantrajectory following method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

Review text

The authors present a new algorithm for calculating magnetic surfaces and coordinates for a given three-dimensional magnetic field or/and for the equivalent problem of computing invariant tori and action-angle variables for a one-dimensional time-dependent Hamiltonian. The algorithm is a hybrid approach of both iterative and trajectory following methods retaining the best features of both methods.

Recommendations

• Computation of magnetic fields from field components on a plane grid
• Efficient calculation of actions
• Numerical solution of three-dimensional magnetic differential equations
• Numerical determination of the magnetic field line Hamiltonian
• A pseudospectral algorithm for three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation

Cites work

• A variational principle for invariant tori of fixed frequency
• Ballooning mode calculations in stellarators
• Convergence properties of a nonvariational 3D MHD equilibrium code
• Critical Behavior of a KAM surface. I: Empirical results
• Establishment of magnetic coordinates for a given magnetic field
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3584892 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3381785 (Why is no real title available?)
• Invariant tori through direct solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation
• Numerical evaluation of magnetic coordinates for particle transport studies in asymmetric plasmas
• Numerical solution of three-dimensional magnetic differential equations
• Stability Criterion for Arbitrary Hydromagnetic Equilibria

Cited in

(5)

• Numerical determination of the magnetic field line Hamiltonian
• Flux-minimizing curves for reversible area-preserving maps
• Computation of magnetic fields from field components on a plane grid
• Hannay angles in magnetic dynamics
• Solving the 3D MHD equilibrium equations in toroidal geometry by Newton's method

This page was built for publication: Computation of magnetic coordinates and action-angle variables

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2277791)