Rapid guiding center calculations
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 2 (8) , 2915-2919
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.871191
Abstract
Pseudo‐Cartesian coordinates are used to represent the magnetic field and toroidal ripple magnitudes in a Hamiltonian guiding center formalism. The resulting code O R B I T X is three to eight times as fast as previous guiding center codes.Keywords
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