NOVA: A nonvariational code for solving the MHD stability of axisymmetric toroidal plasmas

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(87)90023-4zbMath0618.76042OpenAlexW1971813015MaRDI QIDQ1089211

B. George

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1099264/

zbMATH Keywords

convergenceideal MHD equationslinear finite elementsnon-Hermitian eigenmode equationsvariational energy principlesvariational ideal MHD stability codes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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Uses Software

• GATO

Cites Work

• Ideal MHD stability calculations in axisymmetric toroidal coordinate systems
• On calculating with B-splines
• An energy principle for hydromagnetic stability problems
• Hamiltonian guiding center drift orbit calculation for plasmas of arbitrary cross section
• Low-n shear Alfvén spectra in axisymmetric toroidal plasmas
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