Development of Finite Element Field Solver in Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code

DOI10.4208/CICP.OA-2017-0139MaRDI QIDQ5160475zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hongying Feng, Wenlu Zhang, Zhihong Lin, Xiaohe Zhufu, Jin Xu, Jintao Cao, Ding Li

Publication date 29 October 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.oa-2017-0139

zbMATH Keywords

finite difference methodfinite element methodPoisson equationGTC

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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