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A numerical method for the computation of the magnetic flux in the vacuum surrounding the plasma in a Tokamak is investigated. It is based on the formulation of a Cauchy problem which is solved through the minimization of an energy error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Blaise Faugeras , Amel Ben Abda , Jacques Blum , Cedric Boulbe

This paper deals with the numerical reconstruction of the plasma current density in a Tokamak and of its equilibrium. The problem consists in the identification of a non-linear source in the 2D Grad-Shafranov equation, which governs the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-26 Jacques Blum , Cédric Boulbe , Blaise Faugeras

The problem of equilibrium of a plasma in a Tokamak is a free boundary problemdescribed by the Grad-Shafranov equation in axisymmetric configurations. The right hand side of this equation is a non linear source, which represents the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-10 Jacques Blum , Cédric Boulbe , Blaise Faugeras

The reconstruction of the equilibrium of a plasma in a Tokamak is a free boundary problem described by the Grad-Shafranov equation in axisymmetric configuration. The right-hand side of this equation is a nonlinear source, which represents…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-18 Jacques Blum , Cedric Boulbe , Blaise Faugeras

To improve the low frequency spectrum of magnetic field measurements of future tokamak reactors such as ITER, several steady state magnetic sensor technologies have been considered. For all the studied technologies it is always advantageous…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 J. A. Romero , J. Svensson

We consider two inverse problems related to the tokamak \textsl{Tore Supra} through the study of the magnetostatic equation for the poloidal flux. The first one deals with the Cauchy issue of recovering in a two dimensional annular domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-09 Yannick Fischer , Benjamin Marteau , Yannick Privat

The Tokamak device is the most promising candidate for producing sustainable electric power by nuclear fusion. It is a torus-shaped device that confines plasma by a strong magnetic field. The development, design and control of the design…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 M. Holst , V. Kungurtsev , S. Mukherjee

In this work, we propose a novel physics informed neural network based algorithm for real time plasma boundary reconstruction in tokamak devices. The approach is based on a single Extreme Learning Machine network used to solve the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Federico Fiorenza , Sara Dubbioso , Gianmaria De Tommasi , Alfredo Pironti

Boundary conforming coordinates are commonly used in plasma physics to describe the geometry of toroidal domains, for example, in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium solvers. The magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium configuration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Robert Babin , Florian Hindenlang , Omar Maj , Robert Köberl

Modern Tokamaks have evolved from the initial axisymmetric circular plasma shape to an elongated axisymmetric plasma shape that improves the energy confinement time and the triple product, which is a generally used figure of merit for the…

Various MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) equilibrium tools, some of which being recently developed or considerably updated, are used on the COMPASS tokamak at IPP Prague. MHD equilibrium is a fundamental property of the tokamak plasma, whose…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-08 J. Urban , L. C. Appel , J. F. Artaud , B. Faugeras , J. Havlicek , M. Komm , I. Lupelli , M. Peterka

The real-time reconstruction of the plasma magnetic equilibrium in a Tokamak is a key point to access high performance regimes. Indeed, the shape of the plasma current density profile is a direct output of the reconstruction and has a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-27 Didier Mazon , Jacques Blum , Cédric Boulbe , Blaise Faugeras , A. Boboc , M. Brix , P. De Vries , S. Sharapov , L. Zabeo

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a model time-harmonic equation of acoustic tomography of moving fluid with variable current velocity, sound speed, density and absorption. In the present article it is assumed that at fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Alexey Agaltsov

Feedback stabilization of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes is studied in a cylindrical model for a tokamak with resistivity, viscosity and toroidal rotation. The control is based on a linear combination of the normal and tangential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 D. P. Brennan , J. M. Finn

Axisymmetric free-boundary equilibrium reconstructions of tokamak plasmas in the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment (LTX) are performed using the PSI-Tri equilibrium code. Reconstructions in LTX are complicated by the presence of long-lived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 C. Hansen , D. P. Boyle , J. C. Schmitt , R. Majeski

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing the boundary curve of a cavity embedded in a bounded domain. The problem is formulated in two dimensions for the wave equation. We combine the Laguerre transform with the integral equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Roman Chapko , Leonidas Mindrinos

This paper studies the decay of an objective functional using a new control technique within Pontryagin's framework. Convergence analysis is carried out on the infinite-dimensional space of Tokamak plasma dynamical state as described by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Slim Jmal , Matteo Tacchi-Bénard , Emmanuel Witrant

In this paper we consider the mathematical model of thermo- and photo-acoustic tomography for the recovery of the initial condition of a wave field from knowledge of its boundary values. Unlike the free-space setting, we consider the wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Sebastian Acosta , Carlos Montalto

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Philippe Angot , Thomas Auphan , Olivier Guès

Uncertainties and errors in magnetic equilibrium reconstructions are a wide-spread problem in interpreting experimental data measured in the tokamak edge. This study demonstrates errors in EFIT++ reconstructions performed on the COMPASS…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 K. Jirakova , O. Kovanda , J. Adamek , M. Komm , J. Seidl
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