An optimal penalty method for a hyperbolic system modeling the edge plasma transport in a tokamak

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2013.12.037zbMATH Open1349.82137arXiv1403.0830OpenAlexW1978106042MaRDI QIDQ348787FDOQ348787

Authors: Philippe Angot, Thomas Auphan, Olivier Guès 

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Abstract: The penalization method is used to take account of obstacles, such as the limiter, in a tokamak. Because of the magnetic confinement of the plasma in a tokamak, the transport occurs essentially in the direction parallel to the magnetic field lines. We study a 1D nonlinear hyperbolic system as a simplified model of the plasma transport in the area close to the wall. A penalization which cuts the flux term of the momentum is studied. We show numerically that this penalization creates a Dirac measure at the plasma-limiter interface which prevents us from defining the transport term in the usual distribution sense. Hence, a new penalty method is proposed for this hyperbolic system. For this penalty method, an asymptotic expansion and numerical tests give an optimal rate of convergence without spurious boundary layer. Another two-fields penalization has also been implemented and the numerical convergence analysis when the penalization parameter tends to $0$ reveals the presence of a boundary layer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0830

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zbMATH Keywords

penalization methodboundary layerfinite volumesnonlinear hyperbolic systemplasma transporttokamak

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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