Existence and uniqueness of the electric potential profile in the edge of tokamak plasmas when constrained by the plasma-wall boundary physics

DOI10.3934/krm.2008.1.619zbMath1167.35033OpenAlexW2031923663MaRDI QIDQ1004385

Philippe Ghendrih, Anne Nouri, Yanick Sarazin, Claudia Negulescu

Publication date: 4 March 2009

Published in: Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/krm.2008.1.619

zbMATH Keywords

plasmanonlinear boundary conditionsexistence of solutionfluid modelenergy estimateuniqueness of solutioncontrolled fusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Control of turbulent flows (76F70)

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