We have carried out a detailed analysis that compares steady state versus pulsed tokamak reactors. The motivations are as follows. Steady current drive has turned to be more difficult than expected - it takes too many watts an Ampere, which negative effect on power balance and economics. This is partially compensated by the recent development of high temperature REBCO superconductors, offers pr...

Numerical solutions obtained by the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method are presented for two dimensional steady-state heat conduction problems. The MLPG method is a truly meshless approach, and neither the nodal connectivity nor the background mesh is required for solving the initial-boundary-value problem. The penalty method is adopted to efficiently enforce the essential boundary co...