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One of the common tasks required for designing new plasma scenarios or evaluating capabilities of a tokamak is to design the desired equilibria using a Grad-Shafranov (GS) equilibrium solver. However, most standard equilibrium solvers are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 J. T. Wai , M. D. Boyer , D. J. Battaglia , A. Merle , F. Carpanese , F. Felici , M. Kochan , E. Kolemen

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

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

The optimisation of scenarios and design of real-time-control in tokamaks, especially for machines still in design phase, requires a comprehensive exploration of solutions to the Grad-Shafranov (GS) equation over a high-dimensional space of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 A. Agnello , N. C. Amorisco , A. Keats , G. K. Holt , J. Buchanan , S. Pamela , C. Vincent , G. McArdle

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

We present a new fast solver to calculate fixed-boundary plasma equilibria in toroidally axisymmetric geometries. By combining conformal mapping with Fourier and integral equation methods on the unit disk, we show that high-order accuracy…

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

Equilibria in magnetic confinement devices result from force balancing between the Lorentz force and the plasma pressure gradient. In an axisymmetric configuration like a tokamak, such an equilibrium is described by an elliptic equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Daniel A. Serino , Qi Tang , Xian-Zhu Tang , Tzanio V. Kolev , Konstantin Lipnikov

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

We derive axisymmetric equilibrium equations in the context of the hybrid Vlasov model with kinetic ions and massless fluid electrons, assuming isothermal electrons and deformed Maxwellian distribution functions for the kinetic ions. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 D. A. Kaltsas , A. Kuiroukidis , P. J. Morrison , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

We derive exact solutions of a linear form of the Grad-Shafranov (GS) equation, including incompressible equilibrium flow, using ansatz-based similarity reduction methods. The linearity of the equilibrium equation allows linear combinations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Dimitrios A. Kaltsas , George N. Throumoulopoulos

An analytic solution to a generalized Grad-Shafranov equation with flow of arbitrary direction is obtained upon adopting the generic linearizing ansatz for the free functions related to the poloidal current, the static pressure and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 D. A. Kaltsas , A. Kuiroukidis , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

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

A new parallel equilibrium reconstruction code for tokamak plasmas is presented. GPEC allows to compute equilibrium flux distributions sufficiently accurate to derive parameters for plasma control within 1 ms of runtime which enables…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Markus Rampp , Roland Preuss , Rainer Fischer , the ASDEX Upgrade Team

We present several numerical solutions to a generalized Grad-Shafranov equation (GGSE), which governs axisymmetric plasma equilibria with incompressible flows of arbitrary direction, using fully connected, feed-forward, deep neural…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

A new axisymmetric equilibrium solver has been written, called FEQIS (Flexible EQuIlibrium Solver), which purpose is to be used inside integrated modeling of tokamak plasmas. The FEQIS code solves the Grad-Shafranov equation and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 E. Fable , G. Tardini , L. Giannone , the ASDEX Upgrade Team

We present the FreeGSNKE Pulse Design Tool (FPDT), an open-source, Python-based computational framework that enables in silico testing and predictive design of tokamak plasma scenarios and control strategies. The FPDT couples the FreeGSNKE…

We describe the evolution of a plasma equilibrium having a toroidal topology in the presence of constant electric resistivity. After outlining the main analytical properties of the solution, we illustrate its physical implications by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Giovanni Montani , Matteo Del Prete , Nakia Carlevaro , Francesco Cianfrani

In this work we present a robust and accurate arbitrary order solver for the fixed-boundary plasma equilibria in toroidally axisymmetric geometries. To achieve this we apply the mimetic spectral element formulation presented in [56] to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-08 Artur Palha , Barry Koren , Federico Felici

We construct analytic solutions to the generalized Grad-Shafranov equation, which incorporates both toroidal and poloidal flows. This is achieved by adopting a general linearizing ansatz for the free-function terms of the equation and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 A. I. Kuiroukidis , D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos
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