Inclusion of pressure and flow in a new 3D MHD equilibrium code

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Abstract

Flow and nonsymmetric effects can play a large role in plasma equilibria and energy confinement. A concept for such a 3D equilibrium code was developed and presented in 2011. The code is called the Kyoto ITerative Equilibrium Solver (KITES) [1], and the concept is based largely on the PIES code [2]. More recently, the work-in-progress KITES code was used to calculate force-free equilibria. Here, progress and results on the inclusion of pressure and flow in the code are presented. \\[4pt] [1] Daniel Raburn and Atsushi Fukuyama, Plasma and Fusion Research: Regular Articles, 7:240381 (2012).\\[0pt] [2] H. S. Greenside, A. H. Reiman, and A. Salas, J. Comput. Phys, 81(1):102-136 (1989).

*This work is supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (20226017) from JSPS, Japan.

Authors

  • Daniel Raburn

    • Kyoto University Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
  • Atsushi Fukuyama

    • Kyoto University Dept. of Nuclear Engineering