Direct, simple, and efficient computation of all components of the virtual-casing magnetic field in axisymmetric geometries with Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature
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| author | Toler, Evan Cerfon, Antoine Malhotra, Dhairya |
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| contents | In a recent publication (Toler et al. 2023), we demonstrated that for axisymmetric geometries, the Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature rule provided an efficient and high-order accurate method for computing the normal component, on the plasma surface, of the magnetic field due to the toroidal current flowing in the plasma, via the virtual-casing principle. The calculation was indirect, as it required the prior computation of the magnetic vector potential from the virtual-casing principle, followed by the computation of its tangential derivative by Fourier differentiation, in order to obtain the normal component of the magnetic field. Our approach did not provide the other components of the virtual-casing magnetic field.
In this letter, we show that a more direct and more general approach is available for the computation of the virtual-casing magnetic field. The Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature rule accurately calculates the principal value integrals in the expression for all the components of the magnetic field on the plasma boundary, and the numerical error converges at a rate nearly as high as the indirect method we presented previously. |
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| spellingShingle | Direct, simple, and efficient computation of all components of the virtual-casing magnetic field in axisymmetric geometries with Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature Toler, Evan Cerfon, Antoine Malhotra, Dhairya Plasma Physics In a recent publication (Toler et al. 2023), we demonstrated that for axisymmetric geometries, the Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature rule provided an efficient and high-order accurate method for computing the normal component, on the plasma surface, of the magnetic field due to the toroidal current flowing in the plasma, via the virtual-casing principle. The calculation was indirect, as it required the prior computation of the magnetic vector potential from the virtual-casing principle, followed by the computation of its tangential derivative by Fourier differentiation, in order to obtain the normal component of the magnetic field. Our approach did not provide the other components of the virtual-casing magnetic field. In this letter, we show that a more direct and more general approach is available for the computation of the virtual-casing magnetic field. The Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature rule accurately calculates the principal value integrals in the expression for all the components of the magnetic field on the plasma boundary, and the numerical error converges at a rate nearly as high as the indirect method we presented previously. |
| title | Direct, simple, and efficient computation of all components of the virtual-casing magnetic field in axisymmetric geometries with Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature |
| topic | Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02799 |