Implementation of the full viscoresistive magnetohydrodynamic equations in a nonlinear finite element code

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2016.04.007zbMath1349.76216MaRDI QIDQ2375232

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/24670

zbMATH Keywords

finite element method; magnetohydrodynamics; anisotropic diffusion; implicit time integration; tearing mode; magnetic vector potential; ballooning mode; internal kink mode

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76W05: Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

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Uses Software

• XTOR-2F
• PHOENIX
• XTOR
• RODAS
• FINESSE
• BOUT++
• JOREK
• STARWALL

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