Open AccessFinal Technical Report: Global Field Aligned Mesh and Gyrokinetic Field Solver in a Tokamak Edge Geometry
Author(s) -
Julian Cummings
Publication year - 2013
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1079641
Subject(s) - tokamak , solver , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , polygon mesh , field (mathematics) , geometry , computational science , magnetic field , mesh generation , physics , software , aerospace engineering , computer science , plasma , computational physics , mathematics , finite element method , engineering , nuclear physics , telecommunications , operating system , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , thermodynamics , programming language
This project was a collaboration between researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Irvine to investigate the utility of a global field-aligned mesh and gyrokinetic field solver for simulations of the tokamak plasma edge region. Mesh generation software from UC Irvine was tested with specific tokamak edge magnetic geometry scenarios and the quality of the meshes and the solutions to the gyrokinetic Poisson equation were evaluated