Solving the problem of overdetermination of quasisymmetric equilbrium solutions by near-axis expansions. II. Circular axis stellarators
Plasma Physics
2021-02-24 v1
Abstract
We apply the near-axis expansion method for quasisymmetric magnetic fields with anisotropic pressure (developed in the companion paper, Part I [E. Rodriguez, A. Bhattacharjee, arXiv:2008.04715 (2020)]) to construct numerical solutions to circular axis stellarators. The solutions are found to second order in the distance from the axis, not possible in the standard Garren-Boozer construction [D. A. Garren and A. H. Boozer, Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics, 2822 (1991)], which assumes magnetostatic equilibria with isotropic pressure. In the limit of zero anisotropy, it is shown that a subset of coefficients can be chosen to avoid the overdetermination problem.
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@article{arxiv.2008.12580,
title = {Solving the problem of overdetermination of quasisymmetric equilbrium solutions by near-axis expansions. II. Circular axis stellarators},
author = {Eduardo Rodriguez and Amitava Bhattacharjee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.12580},
year = {2021}
}