Intelligent attractors for singularly perturbed dynamical systems

DA Serino, AA Loya, JW Burby, IG Kevrekidis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Singularly perturbed dynamical systems, commonly known as fast-slow systems, play a
crucial role in various applications such as plasma physics. They are closely related to …

On a fully-implicit VMS-stabilized FE formulation for low Mach number compressible resistive MHD with application to MCF

J Bonilla, JN Shadid, XZ Tang, MM Crockatt… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study presents the development and evaluation of a fully-implicit variational multiscale
(VMS) stabilized unstructured finite element (FE) formulation for compressible …

Universal AMG accelerated embedded boundary method without small cell stiffness

Z Peng, D Appelö, S Liu - Journal of Scientific Computing, 2023 - Springer
We develop a universally applicable embedded boundary finite difference method, which
results in a symmetric positive definite linear system and does not suffer from small cell …

An adaptive Newton-based free-boundary Grad-Shafranov solver

DA Serino, Q Tang, XZ Tang, TV Kolev… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Equilibriums in magnetic confinement devices result from force balancing between the
Lorentz force and the plasma pressure gradient. In an axisymmetric configuration like a …

Scalable Multiphysics Block Preconditioning for Low Mach Number Compressible Resistive MHD with Application to Magnetic Confinement Fusion

P Ohm, J Bonilla, E Phillips, JN Shadid, M Crockatt… - SIAM Journal on …, 2024 - SIAM
This study investigates multiphysics block preconditioners that are critical in devising
scalable Newton–Krylov iterative solvers for longer time-scale fully implicit fluid plasma …

An accurate SUPG-stabilized continuous Galerkin discretization for anisotropic heat flux in magnetic confinement fusion

GA Wimmer, BS Southworth, K Sagiyama… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a novel spatial discretization for the anisotropic heat conduction equation, aimed
at improved accuracy at the high levels of anisotropy seen in a magnetized plasma, for …

On a fully-implicit VMS-stabilized FE formulation for low Mach number compressible resistive MHD with application to MCF

J Bonilla deToro, JN Shadid, XZ Tang… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - osti.gov
This study presents the development and evaluation of a fully-implicit variational multiscale
(VMS) stabilized unstructured finite element (FE) formulation for compressible …

A mimetic finite difference based quasi-static magnetohydrodynamic solver for force-free plasmas in tokamak disruptions

Z Jorti, Q Tang, K Lipnikov, XZ Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.08337, 2023 - arxiv.org
Force-free plasmas are a good approximation where the plasma pressure is tiny compared
with the magnetic pressure, which is the case during the cold vertical displacement event …