Asymptotic-preserving methods for an anisotropic model of electrical   potential in a tokamak
  A 2D nonlinear model for the electrical potential in the edge plasma in a tokamak generates a stiff problem due to the low resistivity in the direction parallel to the magnetic field lines. An asymptotic-preserving method based on a micro-macro decomposition is studied in order to have a well-posed problem, even when the parallel resistivity goes to $0$. Numerical tests with a finite difference scheme show a bounded condition number for the linearised discrete problem solved at each time step, which confirms the theoretical analysis on the continuous problem. 
Philippe Angot (I2M), Thomas Auphan (I2M), Olivier Gu\`es (I2M)
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