scientific article; zbMATH DE number 125657

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Authors W. A. Cooper, Ralf Gruber, Silvio Merazzi, U. Schwenn, David V. Anderson, G. Y. Fu

Publication date 21 February 1993

zbMATH Keywords

12 field period torsatronblock pentadiagonal eigenvalue matrix equationeigenvalue shift schemefinite hybrid elementsfusion reactorsinverse vector iteration approachTERPSICHOREvariational energy principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

Review text

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0744.00043.] The 3D ideal MHD stability code TERPSICHORE has been developed to investigate the linear ideal magnetohydrodynamic stability properties of complicated plasma confinement configurations with the aim of identifying new devices that could become attractive candidates as power producing fusion reactors. The variational energy principle that is minimized is Fourier decomposed in poloidal and toroidal angular variables that are optimal for the stability calculation. Finite hybrid elements are used in the radial discretization of the energy integral. In the weak form, the stability problem reduces to a special block pentadiagonal eigenvalue matrix equation which is solved using an inverse vector iteration approach to determine the eigenvalue closest to the null value. All the eigenvalues of the system can be determined via the eigenvalue shift scheme.

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