Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0452728
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Existence and Stability of a Model for Three-Dimensional Toroidal Plasma Equilibria. There is great physical interest in modelling strongly non-axisymmetric toroidal plasmas, but fundamental existence problems have made rigorous numerical analysis so far impossible. We seek to overcome this by investigating a class of idealized, but physically motivated, magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with stepped pressure profiles for which existence in the neighbourhood of axisymmetry has been proven. We will (i) develop numerical techniques to extend these piece-wise Beltrami states far away from axisymmetry (ii) develop practical tests to determine when existence breaks down (iii) analyze the frequency spectrum of small oscillations about such equilibria (iv) extend the model to two-fluid MHD.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2004
End Date: 12-2007
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $255,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Theoretical Physics | Numerical and Computational Mathematics | Numerical Analysis | Plasmas And Electrical Discharges
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Physical sciences | Renewable energy not elsewhere classified (e.g. geothermal) |
