Simultaneous diffusion, reaction and radiative loss processes in plasmas: numerical analysis with application to the dynamics of a fusion reactor plasma

Abstract

Results are presented accounting for a selection of extensive numerical calculations of the evolution in space and time for a dynamic system, governed by a nonlinear diffusion equation with source and loss terms (which could also be nonlinear). The system is assumed to be circularly symmetric and limited by an external boundary where the value of the depending variable (e.g. temperature) is supposed to be zero.