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We developed a code for the reconstruction of nonlinear force-free and non-force-free coronal magnetic fields. The 3D magnetic field is computed numerically with the help of an optimization principle. The force-free and non-force-free codes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann

In this work, we have formulated and implemented a mixed unstructured mesh-based finite element (FE)-Fourier decomposition scheme for gyrokinetic simulations in realistic tokamak geometry. An efficient particle positioning…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Z. X. Lu , Ph. Lauber , T. Hayward-Schneider , A. Bottino , M. Hoelzl

Accurate and rapid simulation of the free boundary tokamak plasma equilibrium evolution is essential for modern plasma control, stability analysis, and scenario development. This paper presents the Free-Boundary Grad-Shafranov Evolutive…

The confinement of plasmas in tokamaks and stellarators depends on magnetic field lines lying in nested toroidal surfaces. The transition near the plasma edge away from the lines lying in magnetic surfaces defines properties of divertors.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Allen H Boozer

The ALLIANCE code is developed to solve a new set of four-dimensional electromagnetic drift-kinetic equations in slab geometry [J. Plasma Phys. 88 905880117 (2022)]. The nonlinear equations are useful for the study of magnetized plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Bogdan Teaca

Magnetic reconnection can power bright, rapid flares originating from the inner magnetosphere of accreting black holes. We conduct extremely high resolution ($5376\times2304\times2304$ cells) general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics…

In this paper we present a new thin-wall eddy current modeling code, ThinCurr, for studying inductively-coupled currents in 3D conducting structures -- with primary application focused on the interaction between currents flowing in coils,…

We present flame, a pipeline for reducing spectroscopic observations obtained with multi-slit near-infrared and optical instruments. Because of its flexible design, flame can be easily applied to data obtained with a wide variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-29 Sirio Belli , Alessandra Contursi , Richard I. Davies

A new global two-fluid electromagnetic turbulence code, CENTORI, has been developed for the purpose of studying magnetically-confined fusion plasmas on energy confinement timescales. This code is used to evolve the combined system of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. J. Knight , A. Thyagaraja , T. D. Edwards , J. Hein , M. Romanelli , K. G. McClements

Plasma driven particle accelerators represent the future of compact accelerating machines and Free Electron Lasers are going to benefit from these new technologies. One of the main issue of this new approach to FEL machines is the design of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 M. Rossetti Conti , A. Bacci , A. Giribono , V. Petrillo , A. R. Rossi , L. Serafini , C. Vaccarezza

Limited availability of multilingual text corpora for training language models often leads to poor performance on downstream tasks due to undertrained representation spaces for languages other than English. This 'under-representation' has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Philipp Borchert , Ivan Vulić , Marie-Francine Moens , Jochen De Weerdt

A one dimensional parameter study of a magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) concept indicates that significant gain may be achievable. This concept uses a dynamically formed plasma shell with inwardly directed momentum to drive a magnetized fuel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 C. E. Knapp , R. C. Kirkpatrick

Solar flares are 3D phenomenon but modelling a flare in 3D, including many of the important processes in the chromosphere, is a computational challenge. Accurately modelling the chromosphere is important, even if the transition region and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Graham S. Kerr , Joel C. Allred , Vanessa Polito

A solar flare releases magnetic energy by reconnecting field lines across a current sheet, thereby allowing their relaxation to a lower energy state. The maximum possible energy is released if all field lines relax to a current-free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Drake Osaben , Jiong Qiu , Dana W. Longcope

Recent development of real-time equilibrium code Equinox [1] using a fixed-point algorithm [2] allow major plasma magnetic parameters to be identified in real-time, using rigorous analytical method. The code relies on the boundary flux code…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Krzysztof Bosak , Jacques Blum , Emmanuel Joffrin

Solar flares are major space weather events that result from the explosive conversion of stored magnetic energy into bulk motion, plasma heating, and particle acceleration. While the standard flare model has proven highly successful in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , Peter F. Wyper , Jiong Qiu , C. Richard DeVore

We compare the results of two--dimensional simulations to experimental data obtained at Los Alamos National Laboratory in order to validate the FLASH code. FLASH is a multi--physics, block--structured adaptive mesh refinement code for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vikram Dwarkadas , Tomek Plewa , Greg Weirs , Chris Tomkins , Mark Marr-Lyon

One of the main diagnostic tools for measuring electron density profiles and the characteristics of long wavelength turbulent wave structures in fusion plasmas is Beam Emission Spectroscopy (BES). The increasing number of BES systems…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 D. Guszejnov , G. I. Pokol , I. Pusztai , D. Refy , S. Zoletnik , M. Lampert , Y. U. Nam

FLAME is a software package to perform a wide range of atomistic simulations for exploring the potential energy surfaces (PES) of complex condensed matter systems. The range of methods include molecular dynamics simulations to sample free…

Field line tracing is one of the fundamental computational tools used in the study of the magnetosphere, which helps in many areas including footprint mapping, connectivity analysis and real-time visualisation. This note describes an…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Taylan Demir