Automatic Generation of Finite Difference Field Solvers for Toroidally Confined Plasmas

DOI10.4208/cicp.OA-2017-0151zbMath1476.76055OpenAlexW3044222388MaRDI QIDQ5162336

Wenlu Zhang, Jintao Cao, Jingbo Lin, Ding Li, Peng-Fei Liu

Publication date: 2 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.oa-2017-0151

zbMATH Keywords

symbolic computationMathematica packagefield-line curvilinear coordinatefinite difference coefficient matrixflux coordinate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

Uses Software

• Mathematica
• VEST
• GeneralVectorAnalysis

Cites Work

• \texttt{VEST}: Abstract vector calculus simplification in \texttt{Mathematica}
• Symbolic vector analysis in plasma physics
• Hamiltonian guiding center drift orbit calculation for plasmas of arbitrary cross section

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