"Magnetic Reconnection Code: Applications to Sawtooth Oscillations, Error-Field Induced Islands, and the Dynamo Effect" - Final Technical Report

[摘要] Dr. Fitzpatrick has written an MHD code in order to investigate the interaction of tearing modes with flow and external magnetic perturbations, which has been successfully benchmarked against both linear and nonlinear theory and used to investigate error-field penetration in flowing plasmas. The same code was used to investigate the so-called Taylor problem. He employed the University of Chicago's FLASH code to further investigate the Taylor problem, discovering a new aspect of the problem. Dr. Fitzpatrick has written a 2-D Hall MHD code and used it to investigate the collisionless Taylor problem. Dr. Waelbroeck has performed an investigation of the scaling of the error-field penetration threshold in collisionless plasmas. Paul Watson and Dr. Fitzpatrick have written a fully-implicit extended-MHD code using the PETSC framework. Five publications have resulted from this grant work.

[发布日期] 2007-09-24

[学科分类] 原子、分子光学和等离子物理

[关键词] plasma;fusion;MHD code