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A generalized Grad-Shafranov equation with plasma flow under a conformal coordinate transformation

Plasma Physics 2018-08-23 v1

Abstract

We employ a conformal mapping transformation to solve a generalized Grad-Shafranov equation with incompressible plasma flow of arbitrary direction and construct particular up-down asymmetric D-shaped and diverted tokamak equilibria. The proposed method can also be employed as an alternative quasi-analytic method to solving two dimensional elliptic partial differential equations.

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@article{arxiv.1808.07291,
  title  = {A generalized Grad-Shafranov equation with plasma flow under a conformal coordinate transformation},
  author = {A. Kuiroukidis and D. Kaltsas and G. N. Throumoulopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07291},
  year   = {2018}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures, accepted in Physics of Plasmas