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P: Fachverband Plasmaphysik

P 17: Poster II

P 17.35: Poster

Freitag, 3. September 2021, 14:00–16:00, P

Analysis of optimal quasi-isodynamic stellarator magnetic equilibria using a direct construction approach — •Katia Camacho Mata, Gabriel Plunk, Per Helander, and Michael Drevlak — Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, Germany

Two important requirements for a viable stellarator reactor are easy-to-build-coils and good confinement. Omnigenous configurations, those in which the time-averaged radial drift is zero, fulfill the good confinement properties requirement. Such configurations are traditionally found by numerical optimization, but these designs have been generally found to feature complex coils. However, it is unknown whether such complexity is fundamentally necessary. To explore this question, we will use a recently developed [1] method for the direct construction of omnigenous MHD(Magnetohydrodynamic) equilibria, which avoids the computational cost of conventional optimization, allowing a thorough survey of the space of omnigenous stellarators at large aspect ratio. We present an analysis of such solutions, focusing on the quasi-isodynamic case, a particular case of omnigeneity.

[1] Plunk, G. G., Landreman, M., & Helander, P. (2019). Direct construction of optimized stellarator shapes. Part 3. Omnigenity near the magnetic axis. Journal of Plasma Physics, 85(6).