Accurate derivative evaluation for any Grad-Shafranov solver

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.11.015MaRDI QIDQ2374960zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. F. Ricketson, Antoine J. Cerfon, Manas Rachh, Jeffrey P. Freidberg

Publication date 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07444

zbMATH Keywords

plasmaequilibriumfinite elementsintegral equationsGrad-Shafranov equationmagnetic confinement fusionquadrature by expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

Abstract: We present a numerical scheme that can be combined with any fixed boundary finite element based Poisson or Grad-Shafranov solver to compute the first and second partial derivatives of the solution to these equations with the same order of convergence as the solution itself. At the heart of our scheme is an efficient and accurate computation of the Dirichlet to Neumann map through the evaluation of a singular volume integral and the solution to a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind. Our numerical method is particularly useful for magnetic confinement fusion simulations, since it allows the evaluation of quantities such as the magnetic field, the parallel current density and the magnetic curvature with much higher accuracy than has been previously feasible on the affordable coarse grids that are usually implemented.

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Uses Software

• PSEC
• ECOM
• ERATO
• ORB5
• FINESSE
• XTOR
• CHEASE
• Matlab

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