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We prove the existence of piecewise smooth MHD equilibria in three-dimensional toroidal domains of $\mathbf{R}^3$ where the pressure is constant on the boundary but not in the interior. The pressure is piecewise constant and the plasma…
We propose the notion of integrable boundary in the context of discrete integrable systems on quad-graphs. The equation characterizing the boundary must satisfy a compatibility equation with the one characterizing the bulk that we called…
We study stationary free boundary configurations of an ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic fluid possessing nested flux surfaces. In 2D simply connected domains, we prove that if the magnetic field and velocity field are never…
In magnetized plasma situations where magnetic fields intersect massive conducting boundaries, "line-tied" boundary conditions are often used, analytically and in numerical simulations. For ideal MHD plasmas, these conditions are arrived at…
In this study, the MHD equilibrium limit of LHD plasmas is studied using a 3D MHD equilibrium calculation code, HINT, which is an initial value solver based on the relaxation method without the assumption of nested flux surfaces. For finite…
A hybrid spectral/finite-element code is developed to numerically solve the resistive finite-pressure magnetohydrodynamic equilibria without the necessity of postulating nested magnetic flux surfaces in the non-axisymmetric toroidal…
We consider the free boundary problem for a plasma--vacuum interface in ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Unlike the classical statement, where the vacuum magnetic field obeys the div-curl system of pre-Maxwell dynamics, we do not…
In this paper an exact transparent boundary condition (TBC) for the multidimensional Schr\"odinger equation in a hyperrectangular computational domain is proposed. It is derived as a generalization of exact transparent boundary conditions…
We construct fully three-dimensional (3D) equilibria with pressure anisotropy and closed, nested toroidal magnetic surfaces that are strongly asymmetric in the toroidal direction by applying a sinusoidal perturbation to the axisymmetric…
Predicting the final state of turbulent plasma relaxation is an important challenge, both in astrophysical plasmas such as the Sun's corona and in controlled thermonuclear fusion. Recent numerical simulations of plasma relaxation with…
We study a 1D geometry of a plasma confined between two conducting floating walls with applications to laboratory plasmas. These plasmas are characterized by a quasi-neutral bulk that is joined to the wall by a thin boundary layer called…
In stellarator optimization studies, the boundary of the plasma is usually described by Fourier series that are not unique: several sets of Fourier coefficients describe approximately the same boundary shape. A simple method for eliminating…
We are interested in numerical algorithms for computing the electrical field generated by a charge distribution localized on scale $\ell$ in an infinite heterogeneous medium, in a situation where the medium is only known in a box of…
We consider the three-dimensional ideal MHD system on a domain $\Omega' \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ with a part $\Gamma$ of the boundary~$\partial \Omega$, where we prescribe both $u\cdot n$ and $b\cdot n$, while $u\cdot n = b\cdot n =0$ on…
Multifluid simulations of plasma sheaths are increasingly used to model a wide variety of problems in plasma physics ranging from global magnetospheric flows around celestial bodies to plasma-wall interactions in thrusters and fusion…
The modeling of finite-extent semiconductor nanostructures that are embedded in a host material requires the numerical treatment of the boundary in a finite simulation domain. For the study of a self-assembled InAs dot embedded in GaAs,…
An exact analytic solution is obtained for a uniformly expanding, neutral, infinitely conducting plasma sphere in an external dipole magnetic field. The electrodynamical aspects related to the radiation and transformation of energy were…
The computational cost of the boundary-condition-enforced immersed boundary method (IBM) increases in the order of $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ as the number of Lagrangian points, $N$, increases. This is due to the time-consuming calculation of the…
We consider the free boundary problem for the plasma-vacuum interface in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In the plasma region, the flow is governed by the usual compressible MHD equations, while in the vacuum region we…
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…