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physics.plasm-ph2019★ 2 cited
Rigidity of MHD equilibria to smooth incompressible ideal motion near resonant surfaces
David Pfefferlé, Lyle Noakes, Yao Zhou
In ideal MHD, the magnetic flux is advected by the plasma motion, freezing flux-surfaces into the flow. An MHD equilibrium is reached when the flow relaxes and force balance is ach…
physics.plasm-ph2019★ 1 cited
Gauge freedom in magnetostatics and the effect on helicity in toroidal volumes
David Pfefferlé, Lyle Noakes
Magnetostatics defines a class of boundary value problems in which the topology of the domain plays a subtle role. For example, representability of a divergence-free field as the c…
physics.plasm-ph2018★ 13 cited
Non-planar elasticae as optimal curves for the magnetic axis of stellarators
David Pfefferlé, Lee Gunderson, Stuart R. Hudson +1
The problem of finding an optimal curve for the target magnetic axis of a stellarator is addressed. Euler-Lagrange equations are derived for finite length three-dimensional curves…