A mass, energy, enstrophy and vorticity conserving (MEEVC) mimetic spectral element discretization for the 2D incompressible Navier–Stokes equations

A Palha, M Gerritsma - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work we present a mimetic spectral element discretization for the 2D incompressible
Navier–Stokes equations that in the limit of vanishing dissipation exactly preserves mass …

TokaMaker: An open-source time-dependent Grad-Shafranov tool for the design and modeling of axisymmetric fusion devices

C Hansen, IG Stewart, D Burgess, M Pharr… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a new static and time-dependent MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD)
equilibrium code, TokaMaker, for axisymmetric configurations of magnetized plasmas …

A hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin solver for the Grad–Shafranov equation

T Sánchez-Vizuet, ME Solano - Computer Physics Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
In axisymmetric fusion reactors, the equilibrium magnetic configuration can be expressed in
terms of the solution to a semi-linear elliptic equation known as the Grad–Shafranov …

Adaptive hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the Grad–Shafranov equation by extension from polygonal subdomains

T Sánchez-Vizuet, ME Solano, AJ Cerfon - Computer Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose a high-order adaptive numerical solver for the semilinear elliptic boundary
value problem modeling magnetic plasma equilibrium in axisymmetric confinement devices …

An adaptive discontinuous Petrov--Galerkin method for the Grad--Shafranov equation

Z Peng, Q Tang, XZ Tang - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2020 - SIAM
In this work, we propose and develop an arbitrary-order adaptive discontinuous Petrov--
Galerkin (DPG) method for the nonlinear Grad--Shafranov equation. An ultraweak …

[HTML][HTML] A hybrid mimetic spectral element method for three-dimensional linear elasticity problems

Y Zhang, J Fisser, M Gerritsma - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
We introduce a domain decomposition structure-preserving method based on a hybrid
mimetic spectral element method for three-dimensional linear elasticity problems in …

A finite element method with overlapping meshes for free-boundary axisymmetric plasma equilibria in realistic geometries

H Heumann, F Rapetti - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Existing finite element implementations for the computation of free-boundary axisymmetric
plasma equilibria approximate the unknown poloidal flux function by standard lowest order …

A mimetic method for polygons

JB Perot, C Chartrand - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
A new method for mimetic interpolation on polygonal meshes is described. This new method
is based on harmonic function interpolation. Explicit formulas for harmonic functions on …

Mimetic spectral element method for anisotropic diffusion

M Gerritsma, A Palha, V Jain, Y Zhang - … Methods for PDEs: State of the …, 2018 - Springer
This chapter addresses the topological structure of steady, anisotropic, inhomogeneous
diffusion problems. Differential operators are represented by sparse incidence matrices …

An efficient MHD equilibrium solver for control oriented transport models

PL Garcia-Martinez, PE Montes - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2020 - Elsevier
In tokamak plasmas, the current density profile is a strong determiner of both MHD stability
and confinement. The design of active control techniques for this profile relies on control …