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Computational methods for plasma fluid models

Part of: ITER International School 2014

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2016

G. Fuhr ,
P. Beyer  and
S. Benkadda
G. Fuhr*
Affiliation:
Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, PIIM, Faculte de Saint Jerome, C631, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France
P. Beyer
Affiliation:
Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, PIIM, Faculte de Saint Jerome, C631, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France
S. Benkadda
Affiliation:
Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, PIIM, Faculte de Saint Jerome, C631, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France
*
†Email address for correspondence: guillaume.fuhr@univ-amu.fr
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Abstract

Challenges in plasma physics are wide. Investigation and advances are made in experiments but at the same time, to understand and to reach the experimental limits, accurate numerical simulations are required from systems of nonlinear equations. The numerical challenges of solving the associated fluid equations are discussed in this paper. Using the framework of the finite difference discretization, the most widely used methods for the problems linked to the diffusion or advection operators are presented.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 82 , Issue 5 , October 2016 , 435820501
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© Cambridge University Press 2016 

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