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In the singular integral routines used for free boundary and in #1360 , the Fourier transforms of the components of the polar basis vectors of NFP symmetric vector fields are taken. Therefore, all vector quantities, in particular the virtual casing current K_vc and the boundary normal vector n_rho, are interpolated incorrectly for any finite resolution due to Gibbs phenomena.
Fix
The fix is to interpolate with Fourier transforms after converting the vectors to Cartesian form.
Math
Recall that a vector field $A$ has discrete integer field period symmetry, also known as NFP symmetry, if
However, only the components of $\mathbf{A}$ belonging to a coordinate system with constant basis vectors, such as the Cartesian components are NFP periodic. In particular for $\text{NFP} \neq 1$, the components of the polar basis vectors are not NFP periodic because $\hat{R}$ and $\hat{\phi}$ have toroidal variation. Instead a vector field $A$ with NFP symmetry satisfies
Issue
In the singular integral routines used for free boundary and in #1360 , the Fourier transforms of the components of the polar basis vectors of NFP symmetric vector fields are taken. Therefore, all vector quantities, in particular the virtual casing current
K_vc
and the boundary normal vectorn_rho
, are interpolated incorrectly for any finite resolution due to Gibbs phenomena.Fix
The fix is to interpolate with Fourier transforms after converting the vectors to Cartesian form.
Math
Recall that a vector field$A$ has discrete integer field period symmetry, also known as NFP symmetry, if
Therefore,$\mathbf{A}$ may be represented as a vector of Fourier series.
However, only the components of$\mathbf{A}$ belonging to a coordinate system with constant basis vectors, such as the Cartesian components are NFP periodic. In particular for $\text{NFP} \neq 1$ , the components of the polar basis vectors are not NFP periodic because $\hat{R}$ and $\hat{\phi}$ have toroidal variation. Instead a vector field $A$ with NFP symmetry satisfies
Therefore, interpolation of$A^{R}$ and $A^{\phi}$ with Fourier series over the domain
will suffer from Gibbs phenomena and not converge with finite resolution.
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