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Exact self-consistent particle-like solutions with spherical and/or cylindrical symmetry to the equations governing the interacting system of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational fields have been obtained. As a particular case it is…

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In this work, we have revisited the Solov'ev analytical solution for a tokamak equilibrium. We point out that the vacuum solution in the Solov'ev formulation is inapplicable, since a distributed current density is assumed to fill the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Tao Xu , Richard Fitzpatrick , Francois L. Waelbroeck

We discuss a new family of solutions of the Grad--Shafranov (GS) equation that describe D-shaped toroidal plasma equilibria with sharp gradients at the plasma edge. These solutions have been derived by exploiting the continuous Lie symmetry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Giampaolo Cicogna , Francesco Pegoraro , Francesco Ceccherini

Quasi-equilibrium approximation is a widely used closure approximation approach for model reduction with applications in complex fluids, materials science, etc. It is based on the maximum entropy principle and leads to thermodynamically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Shan Jiang , Haijun Yu

Nonlinear z-independent solutions to a generalized Grad-Shafranov equation (GSE) with up to quartic flux terms in the free functions and incompressible plasma flow non parallel to the magnetic field are constructed quasi-analytically.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ap Kuiroukidis , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

We obtain analytic solutions of a generalised Grad-Shafranov equation describing steady states with incompressible plasma flow of arbitrary direction, toroidal current reversal and either nested or non-nested magnetic surfaces. It turns out…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 A. Kuiroukidis , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

We give tight upper and lower bounds of the cardinality of the index sets of certain hyperbolic crosses which reflect mixed Sobolev-Korobov-type smoothness and mixed Sobolev-analytic-type smoothness in the infinite-dimensional case where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Dinh Dũng , Michael Griebel

Because currently the most popular method of calculating plasma self-consistent fields is an incomplete method which, strictly speaking, is not suitable to scientific investigation, we develop this method into be a complete reliable basic…

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Solutions of the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equations for the electric field radiated by a time varying point charge in a three-dimensional, unbounded, spatially homogeneous plasma with a uniform background magnetic field and a uniform…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 John J. Podesta

Exact solutions of the equation governing the equilibrium magetohydrodynamic states of an axisymmetric plasma with incompressible flows of arbitrary direction [H. Tasso and G.N.Throumoulopoulos, Phys. Pasmas {\bf 5}, 2378 (1998)] are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. N. Throumoulopoulos , G. Poulipoulis , G. Pantis , H. Tasso

We show that for any uniformly parabolic fully nonlinear second-order equation with bounded measurable "coefficients" and bounded "free" term in any cylindrical smooth domain with smooth boundary data one can find an approximating equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-23 Hongjie Dong , Nicolai V. Krylov

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…

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We propose an arbitrarily high-order accurate, fully well-balanced numerical method for the one-dimensional blood flow model. The developed method employs a continuous solution representation, combining conservative and primitive…

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In magnetic confinement fusion devices, the equilibrium configuration of a plasma is determined by the balance between the hydrostatic pressure in the fluid and the magnetic forces generated by an array of external coils and the plasma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Howard C. Elman , Jiaxing Liang , Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet

In this work, we demonstrate a method for constructing the Solov'ev equilibrium with any given 2D shape surrounded by a vacuum region using external poloidal field coils. The computational domain consists of two parts: the plasma region,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Jiaxing Liu , Ping Zhu , Haolong Li

The problem posed by the possible existence/non-existence of spatially non-symmetric kinetic equilibria has remained unsolved in plasma theory. For collisionless magnetized plasmas this involves the construction of stationary solutions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 Claudio Cremaschini , Massimo Tessarotto

We present an algorithm of finding numerical solutions of pulsar equation. The problem of finding the solutions was reduced to finding expansion coefficients of the source term of the equation in a base of orthogo- nal functions defined on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lukasz Bratek , Marcin Kolonko

We analyze an axisymmetric equilibrium of a plasma endowed with toroidal and poloidal velocity fields, with the aim to characterize the influence of the global motion on the morphology of the magnetic confinement. We construct our…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Giovanni Montani , Matteo Del Prete

This work presents arbitrary high order well balanced finite volume schemes for the Euler equations with a prescribed gravitational field. It is assumed that the desired equilibrium solution is known, and we construct a scheme which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-30 C. Klingenberg , G. Puppo , M. Semplice

A new algorithm for solving non-homogeneous asymptotically linear and superlinear problems is proposed. The ground state solution of the problem, which in general is obtained as a mini-max of the associated functional, is obtained as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-10 L. A. Maia , D. Raom , R. Ruviaro , Y. D. Sobral