A wall-aligned grid generator for non-linear simulations of MHD instabilities in tokamak plasmas

Block-structured mesh generation techniques have been well addressed in the CFD community for automobile and aerospace studies, and their applicability to magnetic fusion is highly relevant, due to ...

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