A numerical matching technique for linear resistive magnetohydrodynamics modes

作者：Furukawa M^*; Tokuda S; Zheng L J

来源：Physics of Plasmas, 2010, 17(5): 052502.

DOI：10.1063/1.3420244

• initial value problems
• numerical analysis
• perturbation theory
• plasma instability
• plasma magnetohydrodynamic waves
• plasma magnetohydrodynamics
• plasma transport processes
• shear flow

A new numerical matching technique for linear stability analysis of resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) modes is developed. The solution to the resistive reduced MHD equations in an inner layer with a finite width is matched onto the solution to the inertialess ideal MHD or the Newcomb equation by imposing smooth disappearance of parallel electric field in addition to the continuity of perturbed magnetic field and its spatial gradient. The boundary condition for the parallel electric field is expressed as a boundary condition of the third kind for the stream function of the perturbed velocity field. This technique can be applied for the reversed magnetic shear plasmas of their minimum safety factors being rational numbers, for which the conventional asymptotic matching technique fails. In addition, this technique resolves practical difficulties in applying the conventional asymptotic matching technique, i.e., the sensitivity of the outer-region solution on the accuracy of the local equilibrium as well as the grid arrangements, even in normal magnetic shear plasmas. Successful applications are presented not only for the eigenvalue problem but also for the initial-value problem.

• 出版日期2010-5