Fully Nonlinear Equations with Applications to Grad Equations in Plasma Physics

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper we generalize an equation studied by Mossino and Temam in [7], to the fully nonlinear case. This equation arises in plasma physics as an approximation to Grad equations, which were introduced by Harold Grad in [4], to model the behavior of plasma confined in a toroidal vessel called TOKAMAK. We prove existence of a ‐viscosity solution and regularity up to for any (we improve this regularity near the boundary). The difficulty of this problem lies in the right‐hand side which involves the measure of the superlevel sets, making the problem nonlocal. © 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.