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A new approach to high pressure magnetically-confined plasmas is necessary to design efficient fusion devices. This paper presents an equilibrium combining two solutions of the Grad-Shafranov equation, which describes the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. -A. Gourdain , S. C. Cowley , J. -N. Leboeuf

A challenging and fundamental research problem is the better understanding and control of the turbulent transport of heat in present-day tokamak fusion experiments. Recent developments in numerical methods along with enormous gains in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Jeremy Kepner , Scott Parker , Viktor Decyk

We consider the free boundary problem for relativistic plasma--vacuum interfaces in two and three spatial dimensions. The plasma flow is governed by the equations of ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, while the vacuum magnetic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Paolo Secchi , Yuri Trakhinin , Tao Wang

In this paper we develop theoretical analysis and numerical reconstruction techniques for the solution of an inverse boundary value problem dealing with the nonlinear, time-dependent monodomain equation, which models the evolution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-27 Elena Beretta , Cecilia Cavaterra , Maria Cristina Cerutti , Andrea Manzoni , Luca Ratti

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of recovering a diffusion and absorption coefficients in steady-state optical tomography problem from the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map. We first prove a Global uniqueness and Lipschitz stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Houcine Meftahi

We consider the problem of reconstruction of Cauchy data for the wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^1$ by the measurements of its solution on the boundary of the finite interval. This is a one-dimensional model for the multidimensional problem of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-26 D. Langemann , A. S. Mikhaylov , V. S. Mikhaylov

The accurate construction of tokamak equilibria, which is critical for the effective control and optimization of plasma configurations, depends on the precise distribution of magnetic fields and magnetic fluxes. Equilibrium fitting codes,…

The electric potential is an essential quantity for the confinement process of tokamak plasmas, with important impact on the performances of fusion reactors. Understanding its evolution in the peripheral region - the part of the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Andrea Mentrelli , Claudia Negulescu

Rotation of tokamak-plasmas, not at the mechanical equilibrium, is investigated utilizing a theorem of thermodynamics, established by Prigogine. This theorem, suitably applied to toroidally confined plasmas, suggests that the global…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 Giorgio Sonnino , Alessandro Cardinali , Alberto Sonnino , Fulvio Zonca

In this paper, we study the inverse boundary value problem for the wave equation with a view towards an explicit reconstruction procedure. We consider both the anisotropic problem where the unknown is a general Riemannian metric smoothly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Maarten de Hoop , Paul Kepley , Lauri Oksanen

We consider the inverse shape and parameter problem for detecting corrosion from partial boundary measurements. This problem models the non-destructive testing for a partially buried object from electrostatic measurements on the accessible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld , Heejin Lee

We investigate the inverse Cauchy and data completion problems for elliptic partial differential equations in a bounded domain $D \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d \ge 2$, with a special emphasis on the steady-state heat conduction in anisotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Iulian Cîmpean , Andreea Grecu , Liviu Marin

A local magnetic equilibrium model is presented, with finite aspect ratio and up-down asymmetrically shaped cross section, that depends on eight free parameters. In contrast with other local equilibria, which provide simple magnetic-surface…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Paulo Rodrigues , André Coroado

A local magnetic equilibrium solution is sought around the magnetic axis in order to identify the key parameters defining the magnetic-surface's up-down asymmetry in the core of tokamak plasmas. The asymmetry is found to be determined…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Paulo Rodrigues , Nuno F. Loureiro , Justin Ball , Felix I. Parra

Boundary plasma physics plays an important role in tokamak confinement, but is difficult to simulate in a gyrokinetic code due to the scale-inseparable nonlocal multi-physics in magnetic separatrix and open magnetic field geometry. Neutral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 S. Ku , R. M. Churchill , C. S. Chang , R. Hager , E. S. Yoon , M. Adams , E. D'Azevedo , P. H. Worley

We deal with the geometrical inverse problem of the shape reconstruction of cavities in a bounded linear isotropic medium by means of boundary data. The problem is addressed from the point of view of optimal control: the goal is to minimize…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Andrea Aspri

Given the wave equation on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we derive an explicit reconstruction procedure to represent the frequency-domain Neumann-to-Dirichlet map in terms of the time-domain Neumann-to-Dirichlet map at any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Yang Yang

We propose an improved version of the PAMPA algorithm where the solution is sought as globally continuous. The scheme is locally conservative, and there is no mass matrix to invert. This method had been developed in a series of papers, see…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Rémi Abgrall , Yongle Liu

In this paper, we present a new static and time-dependent MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) equilibrium code, TokaMaker, for axisymmetric configurations of magnetized plasmas, based on the well-known Grad-Shafranov equation. This code utilizes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 C. Hansen , I. G. Stewart , D. Burgess , M. Pharr , S. Guizzo , F. Logak , A. O. Nelson , C. Paz-Soldan

This paper is concerned with the detection of objects immersed in anisotropic media from boundary measurements. We propose an accurate approach based on the Kohn-Vogelius formulation and the topological sensitivity analysis method. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Maatoug Hassine , Imen Kallel