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A key aspect in the modelling of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibria in tokamak devices is having access to fast, accurate, and stable numerical simulation methods. There is an increasing demand for reliable methods that can be used to…

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

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

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

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…

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

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

One of the common tasks required for designing new plasma pulses or shaping scenarios is to design the desired equilibria using an equilibrium (Grad-Shafranov equation) solver. However, standard equilibrium solvers are time-independent and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 J. T. Wai , E. Kolemen

Fast and accurate solutions of the Grad--Shafranov (GS) equation are essential for equilibrium analysis, integrated modeling, and surrogate model construction in magnetic confinement fusion. In this work, we address a fundamental question:…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Huasheng Xie , Yueyan Li

A new version of GBS (Ricci et al. Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 54, 124047, 2012; Halpern et al. J. Comput. Phys. 315, 388-408, 2016; Paruta et al. Phys. Plasmas 25, 112301, 2018) is described. GBS is a three-dimensional, flux-driven,…

A method is proposed to solve the Grad-Shafranov partial differential equation for the poloidal flux function associated with the equilibrium of a plasma magnetically confined in an axisymmetric torus under the assumption that the sources…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-06 Antonio Carlos de Almeida Ferreira

We propose a high-order adaptive numerical solver for the semilinear elliptic boundary value problem modelling magnetic plasma equilibrium in axisymmetric confinement devices. In the fixed boundary case, the equation is posed on curved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet , Manuel E. Solano , Antoine J. Cerfon

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

By choosing appropriate deformed Maxwellian ion and electron distribution functions depending on the two particle constants of motion, i.e. the energy and toroidal angular momentum, we reduce the Vlasov axisymmetric equilibrium problem for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Ap Kuiroukidis , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso

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

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

We employ a conformal mapping transformation to solve a generalized Grad-Shafranov equation with incompressible plasma flow of arbitrary direction and construct particular up-down asymmetric D-shaped and diverted tokamak equilibria. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-23 A. Kuiroukidis , D. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

In axisymmetric fusion reactors, the equilibrium magnetic configuration can be expressed in terms of the solution to a semi-linear elliptic equation known as the Grad-Shafranov equation, the solution of which determines the poloidal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet , Manuel Solano

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

A self-consistent model is presented for the simulation of a multi-component plasma in the tokamak boundary. A deuterium plasma is considered, with the plasma species that include electrons, deuterium atomic ions and deuterium molecular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 A. Coroado , P. Ricci
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