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We introduce a topology optimization method to design permanent magnets for advanced stellarators. Recent researches show that permanent magnets have great potentials to simplify stellarator coils. We adopt state-of-the-art numerical…

In this work we consider the problem of optimizing a stellarator subject to hard constraints on the design variables and physics properties of the equilibrium. We survey current numerical methods for handling these constraints, and…

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We analyze actual methods that generate smooth frame fields both in 2D and in 3D. We formalize the 2D problem by representing frames as functions (as it was done in 3D), and show that the derived optimization problem is the one that…

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In this paper, a new algorithm based on differential geometry viewpoint to solve the 3D rotating Navier-Stokes equations with complex Boundary is proposed, which is called Bi-parallel algorithm. For xample, it can be applied to passage flow…

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Variational optimization of orbitals in time-independent density functional calculations of excited electronic states presents a significant challenge, as excited states typically correspond to saddle points on the electronic energy…

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A three-step model for calculating the magnetic field generated by coils inside cuboid-shaped shields like magnetically shielded rooms (MSRs) is presented. The shield is modelled as two parallel plates of infinite width and one tube of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Tianhao Liu , Allard Schnabel , Jens Voigt , Zhiyin Sun , Liyi Li

A first-order model is derived for quasisymmetric stellarators where the vacuum field due to coils is dominant, but plasma-current-induced terms are not negligible and can contribute to magnetic differential equations, with $\beta$ of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Nikita Nikulsin , Wrick Sengupta , Rogerio Jorge , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Error fields are predominantly attributed to inevitable coil imperfections. Controlling error fields during coil fabrication and assembly is crucial for stellarators. Excessively tight coil tolerance increases time and cost, and, in part,…

We study decentralized smooth optimization problems over compact submanifolds. Recasting it as a composite optimization problem, we propose a decentralized Douglas-Rachford splitting algorithm, DDRS. When the proximal operator of the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Kangkang Deng , Jiang Hu , Hongxia Wang

For designing high-field electromagnets, the Lorentz force on coils must be computed to ensure a support structure is feasible, and the inductance should be computed to evaluate the stored energy. Also, the magnetic field and its variation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Matt Landreman , Siena Hurwitz , Thomas M Antonsen

Computing equilibrium shapes of crystals (ESC) is a challenging problem in materials science that involves minimizing an orientation-dependent (i.e., anisotropic) surface energy functional subject to a prescribed mass constraint. The highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Zeyu Zhou , Wen Huang , Wei Jiang , Zhen Zhang

This paper introduces a novel second-order splitting scheme for charged-particle dynamics in strong magnetic fields characterized by the maximal ordering. The proposed scheme is explicit and symmetric, which respectively ensure the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Mengting Hu , Jiyong Li , Bin Wang

Bitter coil is an electromagnet used for the generation of exceptionally strong magnetic fields. The upper bound of magnet flux density is restricted by several factors. One principal restriction is the high stresses due to Lorentz forces…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-26 V. Kobelev

It is shown that the computational efficiency of the discrete least-squares (DLS) approximation of solutions of stochastic elliptic PDEs is improved by incorporating a reduced-basis method into the DLS framework. The goal is to recover the…

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All numerical solutions of the pulsar magnetosphere over the past 25 years show closed-line regions that end a significant distance inside the light cylinder, and manifest thick strongly dissipative separatrix surfaces instead of thin…

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We present an explicit theoretical framework for constructing artificial modular coils based solely on equilibrium properties, achieved through the formulation of a current potential defined on flux surfaces. We demonstrate that key…

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Surface currents provide a general way to model static magnetic fields in source-free volumes. To facilitate the use of surface currents in magneto-quasistatic problems, we have implemented a set of computational tools in a Python package…

We developed a code for the reconstruction of nonlinear force-free and non-force-free coronal magnetic fields. The 3D magnetic field is computed numerically with the help of an optimization principle. The force-free and non-force-free codes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann

Permanent magnets provide an attractive path for shaping university-scale stellarator magnetic fields. Previous work has shown that greedy permanent magnet optimization (GPMO) can produce sparse, grid-aligned arrays that match target…

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Electromagnetic wiping systems allow to pre-meter the coating thickness of the liquid metal on a moving substrate. These systems have the potential to provide a more uniform coating and significantly higher production rates compared to…

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