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Design and modeling of a stellarator fusion reactor is a multidisciplinary effort that requires a tight integration between simulation of highly nonlinear multi-physics and representation of non-planar complex geometries. The critical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Merle Backmeyer , Nicolo Riva , Mika Lyly , Alexandre Halbach , Valtteri Lahtinen

This paper describes a new and efficient method of defining an annular region of a curl-free magnetic field with specific physics and coil properties that can be used in stellarator design. Three statements define the importance: (1) Codes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Allen H. Boozer

This paper deals with the design of the stellarator field with the simple coil set. In order to realize the stellarator field by the simple coil set, the tilted toroidal field coil uses for creating the rotational transform. Sixteen tilted…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Yasuhiro Suzuki , Jie Huang , Nengchao Wang , Yonghua Ding

In this self-contained document, we aim to present the basic theoretical building blocks to understand modeling of stellarator magnetic fields, some of the challenges associated with modeling, and optimization for designing stellarators. As…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard , Elizabeth J. Paul , Adelle M. Wright

The design of a stellarator with acceptable confinement properties requires optimization of the magnetic field in the non-convex, high-dimensional spaces describing their geometry. Another major challenge facing the stellarator program is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Elizabeth Paul

The confinement of guiding center trajectories in a stellarator is determined by the variation of the magnetic field strength $B$ in Boozer coordinates $(r, \theta, \varphi)$, but $B(r,\theta,\varphi)$ depends on the flux surface shape in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Matt Landreman , Wrick Sengupta

Designing magnets for three-dimensional plasma confinement is a key task for advancing the stellarator as a fusion reactor concept. Stellarator magnets must produce an accurate field while leaving adequate room for other components and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 K. C. Hammond

In stellarators, zonal flow activity depends sensitively on geometry of the three dimensional magnetic field, via an interplay of mechanisms that is not fully understood. In this work, we investigate this by studying three magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 C. D. Mora Moreno , J. H. E. Proll , G. G. Plunk , P. Xanthopoulos

Variable flux memory motors, which employ Low Coercive Force (LCF) magnets, achieve extended high-efficiency operation through controllable magnetization states. To address the need for a unified approach to defining and comparing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Taha El Hajji , Aleksandr Nadkin , Stefan Skoog , Lars Sjöberg , Kristoffer Nilsson , Anthony C. Morcos

The present study aims at studying the flow and field produced by a stellar radiative zone which is initially made to rotate differentially in the presence of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field threading the whole domain. We focus both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 L. Jouve , F. Lignières , M. Gaurat

We study the structure of scalar, vector, and tensor currents for on-shell massive particles of any spin. When considering higher values for the spin of the particle, the number of form factors (FFs) involved in the decomposition of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-07 Sabrina Cotogno , Cédric Lorcé , Peter Lowdon , Manuel Morales

This paper provides a brief overview of the formation of stellar fossil magnetic fields and what potential instabilities may occur given certain configurations of the magnetic field. In particular, a purely magnetic instability can occur…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-28 Kyle Augustson , Stephane Mathis , Antoine Strugarek

The configuration and evolution of the magnetic field in star-forming cores are investigated in order to directly compare simulations and observations. We prepare four different initial clouds having different magnetic field strengths and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Akimasa Kataoka , Masahiro N. Machida , Kohji Tomisaka

A neoclassically optimized compact stellarator with simple coils has been designed. The magnetic field of the new stellarator is generated by only four planar coils including two interlocking coils of elliptical shape and two circular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Guodong Yu , Zhichen Feng , Peiyou Jiang , Neil Pomphrey , Matt Landreman , GuoYong Fu

Stellarators are generically small current and low plasma beta ($\beta= p/B^2\ll1$) devices. Often the construction of vacuum magnetic fields with good magnetic surfaces is the starting point for an equilibrium calculation. Although in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Wrick Sengupta , Harold Weitzner

A coordinate-space representation for a charged scalar particle propagator in a constant magnetic field was obtained as a series over the Landau levels. Using the recently developed modified Fock-Schwinger method, an intermediate expression…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 S. N. Iablokov , A. V. Kuznetsov

The usage of permanent magnets to shape the confining magnetic field of a stellarator has the potential to reduce or eliminate the need for non-planar coils. As a proof-of-concept for this idea, we have developed a procedure for designing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 K. C. Hammond , C. Zhu , K. Corrigan , D. A. Gates , R. Lown , R. Mercurio , T. M. Qian , M. C. Zarnstorff

The ground state of colloidal magnetic particles in a modulated channel are investigated as function of the tilt angle of an applied magnetic field. The particles are confined by a parabolic potential in the transversal direction while in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-02 J. E. Galván-Moya , D. Lucena , W. P. Ferreira , F. M. Peeters

We consider topological configurations of the magnetically coupled spinning stellar binaries (e.g., merging neutron stars or interacting star-planet systems). We discuss conditions when the stellar spins and the orbital motion nearly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Sergey A. Cherkis , Maxim Lyutikov

Stellarator coils are known for their complexity and departure from planarity, along with tight manufacturing tolerances in order to achieve the target magnetic field accuracy. These requirements can lead to increased costs and delays in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-31 Pedro F. Gil , Vitali Brack , Tristan Schuler , Paul Huslage , E. V. Stenson