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Extending near-axis equilibria in DESC
Dario Panici, Eduardo Rodriguez, Rory Conlin +2
The near-axis description of optimised stellarator fields has proven to be a powerful tool both for design and understanding of this magnetic confinement concept. The description c…
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The shear Alfvén continuum of quasisymmetric stellarators
Elizabeth J. Paul, Abdullah Hyder, Eduardo RodrÃguez +2
The shear Alfvén wave (SAW) continuum plays a critical role in the stability of energetic particle-driven Alfvén eigenmodes. We develop a theoretical framework to analyze the SAW…
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Back to the Figure-8 Stellarator
G. G. Plunk, M. Drevlak, E. Rodriguez +3
The first stellarator design was a simple tube of plasma twisted and closed on itself in the form of a figure-8. The line of such devices, however, was quickly ended over concerns…