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The Grad–Shafranov plasma equilibrium equation was originally solved analytically in toroidal geometry, which fitted the geometric shape of the first Tokamaks. The poloidal surface of the Tokamak has evolved over the years from a circular to a D-shaped ellipse. The natural geometry that describes such a shape is the prolate elliptical one, i.e., the cap-cyclide coordinate system. When written in this geometry, the Grad–Shafranov equation can be solved in terms of the general Heun function. In this paper, we obtain the complete analytical solution of the Grad–Shafranov equation in terms of the general Heun functions and compare the result with the limiting case of the standard toroidal geometry written in terms of the Fock functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we construct an analytical solution of the coupled Burgers' equation, using the homotopy analysis method, which is a semi-analytical method, the approximate solution obtained by this method is convergent for different values of the convergence control parameter ℏ, the optimal value of ℏ corresponding with the minimum error to be determined by the residual. The results obtained by the present method are compared with other obtained solutions by different numerical methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present some solutions of the three-dimensional Laplace equation in terms of linear combinations of generalized hyperogeometric functions in prolate elliptic geometry, which simulates the current tokamak shapes. Such solutions are valid for particular parameter values. The derived solutions are compared with the solutions obtained in the standard toroidal geometry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]