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Godzilla is helping ITER prepare for tokamak assembly
ITER employees stand by Godzilla, the most powerful commercially available industrial robot available. (Photo: ITER)
Many people are familiar with Godzilla as a giant reptilian monster that emerged from the sea off the coast of Japan, the product of radioactive contamination. These days, there is a new Godzilla, but it has a positive—and entirely fact-based—association with nuclear energy. This one has emerged inside the Tokamak Assembly Preparation Building of ITER in southern France.
Gregory R. Cefus, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 105 | Number 1 | May 1990 | Pages 31-39
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-117
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A stability analysis for coarse-mesh rebalance (CMR) is developed and tested. The analysis is based on linearizing the CMR algorithm for a special class of problems and using a Fourier analysis to study the stability of the linearized algorithm. Numerical experimentation shows that the original (nonlinear) and linearized CMR methods have basically the same convergence properties and that these properties are accurately predicted by the Fourier analysis.
