BOUT++: A framework for parallel plasma fluid simulations

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 180, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1467-1480

  Dudson, B D ^a   Umansky, M V ^b   Xu, X Q ^b   Snyder, P B ^c   Wilson, H R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvilinear coordinates; ELM; Plasma simulation; Tokamak

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; CURVILINEAR COORDINATE; CURVILINEAR COORDINATES; EIGENVALUE CODES; ELM; FLUID EQUATIONS; FLUID MODELS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PLASMA FLUIDS; PROBLEM SIZE; SCALAR AND VECTOR FIELDS; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-SCALES; TOKAMAK; WENO SCHEMES; X-POINT GEOMETRY;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PLASMA SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 68849089439     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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