@article{5879, author = {W. Kerner and J. P. Goedbloed and G. T. A. Huysmans and S. Poedts and E. Schwarz}, title = {CASTOR: Normal-mode analysis of resistive MHD plasmas}, abstract = {The CASTOR (complex Alfven spectrum of toroidal plasmas) code computes the entire spectrum of normal-modes in resistive MHD for general tokamak configurations. The applied Galerkin method, in conjunction with a Fourier finite-element discretisation, leads to a large scale eigenvalue problem A (x) under bar = lambda B (x) under bar, where A is a nonself-adjoint matrix. (C) 1998 Academic Press.}, year = {1998}, journal = {Journal of Computational Physics}, volume = {142}, number = {2}, pages = {271-303}, month = {May 20}, isbn = {0021-9991}, doi = {10.1006/jcph.1998.5910}, language = {eng}, }