Accurate calculations of field-reversed axisymmetric equilibria and their MHD stability properties

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(81)90246-1zbMath0467.76118OpenAlexW2066448962MaRDI QIDQ1156073

D. C. Barnes, David V. Anderson

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(81)90246-1

zbMATH Keywords

B-spline basis functionsbi-cubicfield-reversed axisymmetric equilibriaICCG algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Method of contraction of the boundary for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N45)

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Uses Software

• GEAR

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