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The paper suggests certain regimes of fusion plasma with magnetic confinement, when the Larmor radius $\lambda$ and the angle $\alpha$ (determining the orientation of the local coordinates) form an analytic function $w=\lambda e^{i\alpha}$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Alexander M. Balk

In this paper, we present the analytical and numerical study of the optimization approach for determining the space-dependent source function in the parabolic inverse source problem using partial boundary measurements. The Lagrangian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-23 T. Sharma , L. Beilina , K. Sakthivel

Effects of reversed magnetic shear on the plasma rotation stabilization of resistive wall modes in tokamaks are investigated using the AEGIS code. MHD equilibria in toroidal configuration from circular cross-sections to realistic CFETR-like…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Sui Wan , Ping Zhu , Linjin Zheng

The edge density and temperature of tokamak plasmas are strongly correlated with energy and particle confinement and their quantification is fundamental to understanding edge dynamics. These quantities exhibit behaviours ranging from sharp…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Abhilash Mathews , Jerry Hughes

Nuclear fusion represents one of the best alternatives for a sustainable source of clean energy. Tokamaks allow to confine fusion plasma with magnetic fields and one of the main challenges in the control of the magnetic configuration is the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Chenguang Wan , Zhi Yu , Alessandro Pau , Xiaojuan Liu , Jiangang Li

The simulation of turbulence in the boundary region of a tokamak is crucial for understanding and optimizing the performance of fusion reactors. In this work, the use of low-rank linear algebra techniques is shown to enhance the efficiency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Margherita Guido , Daniel Kressner , Davide Mancini , Paolo Ricci

This paper explores the reconstruction of a space-dependent parameter in inverse diffusion problems, proposing a shape-optimization-based approach. We consider a Robin boundary condition, physically motivated in diffuse optical tomography…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Manabu Machida , Hirofumi Notsu , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

This paper tackles the data completion problem related to the Helmholtz equation. The goal is to identify unknown boundary conditions on parts of the boundary that cannot be accessed directly, by making use of measurements collected from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Jamal Daoudi , Chakir Tajani

Although the nuclear fusion process has received a great deal of attention in recent years, the amount of mathematical analysis that supports the stability of the system seems to be relatively insufficient. This paper deals with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Jin Woo Jang , Robert M. Strain , Tak Kwong Wong

A lumped parameter model for tokamak plasma current and inductance time evolution as function of plasma resistance, non-inductive current drive sources and boundary voltage or poloidal field (PF) coil current drive is presented. The model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 J. A. Romero , JET-EFDA Contributors

Standard reduced models often fail to adequately describe the complex geometric response of tokamak plasmas to strong toroidal rotation. In this work, we present VEQ-R, a computationally efficient spectral solver designed to calculate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Xingyu Li , Huasheng Xie , Lai Wei , Zhengxiong Wang

We consider the problem to reconstruct a wave speed $c \in C^\infty(M)$ in a domain $M \subset \R^n$ from acoustic boundary measurements modelled by the hyperbolic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map $\Lambda$. We introduce a reconstruction formula…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-04 Shitao Liu , Lauri Oksanen

A free-boundary, axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium code, pyIPREQ, has been developed for Tokamak plasmas using finite difference and Green's function approach. The code builds upon the foundational frameworks of the PEST…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Udaya Maurya , Amit K. Singh , Suman Aich , Jagabandhu Kumar , Rohit Kumar , Daniel Raju

This overview presents a tutorial introduction to the theory of magnetic plasma confinement in toroidal confinement systems with particular emphasis on axisymmetric equilibrium geometries, and tokamaks. The discussion covers three important…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Fatemeh Dini , Reza Baghdadi , Reza Amrollahi , Sina Khorasani

We propose a new numerical method for the solution of the problem of the reconstruction of the initial condition of a quasilinear parabolic equation from the measurements of both Dirichlet and Neumann data on the boundary of a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen

The Grad-Shafranov (GS) equation is a nonlinear elliptic partial differential equation that governs the ideal magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium of a tokamak plasma. Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of multiple solutions to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 K. Pentland , N. C. Amorisco , P. E. Farrell , C. J. Ham

Plasma shape control in tokamaks requires a real-time controller that tracks dynamically changing shape targets while tolerating diagnostic failures. Classical approaches decompose the problem into equilibrium reconstruction followed by a…

Designing superconducting coils for a tokamak fusion device is a highly coupled, non-linear design problem. The coils have many disparate engineering requirements from structural to power electronics, as well strict limits placed on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Nathan Welch , Chris Marsden

Plasma toroidal metric singularities in helical devices and tokamaks, giving rise to magnetic surfaces inside the plasma devices are investigated in two cases. In the first we consider the case of a rotational plasma on an helical device…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Garcia de Andrade

The goal of this paper is to understand from a mathematical point of view the magnetic confinement of plasmas for fusion. Following Fr\'enod and Sonnendr\"ucker \cite{FS2}, we first use two-scale convergence tools to derive a gyrokinetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Daniel Han-Kwan