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The multigrid method has been applied to the solution of the two-dimensional elliptic equation that governs axisymmetric ideal magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium. The possibility of applying multigrid to the computation of axisymmetric equilibria in the ‘inverse coordinates’ formulation and to three-dimensional equilibrium and evolution calculations is investigated.
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Braams, B.J. (1986). Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium calculations using multigrid. In: Hackbusch, W., Trottenberg, U. (eds) Multigrid Methods II. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1228. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0072640
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