Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar

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Finite Element Methods for Magneto-Fluid Dynamics

Speaker: H.R. Strauss, CIMS

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1013

Date: Wednesday, September 18, 1996, 1:30 p.m.

Synopsis:

This talk describes work on unstructured mesh finite element methods for computational magnetohydrodynamics. First, I describe two dimensional incompressible MHD and a workable method for time dependent adaptive mesh computations.

Next, I describe 3D reduced MHD computations, which have been implemented on a parallel, distributed memory computer. Nonlinear, three dimensional numerical computations include simulations of edge-localized modes (ELMs) and of pellet injection in divertor tokamaks.

Finally, I discuss how a finite element discretization and unstructured mesh have been incorporated into the Princeton MH3D code, which solves the full MHD system of equations.