{"id":101869,"date":"2020-02-04T10:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/curl-free-magnetic-fields-for-stellarator-optimization"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:08:55","slug":"curl-free-magnetic-fields-for-stellarator-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/curl-free-magnetic-fields-for-stellarator-optimization","title":{"rendered":"Curl-free magnetic fields for stellarator optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p>Codes can follow an optimized curl-free initial state to a final full-pressure equilibrium. The large size of the optimization space of stellarators.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately fifty externally-produced distributions of magnetic field, makes success in finding a global optimum largely determined by the starting point.<\/p>\n<p>The design of a stellarator is actually improved when the central region of the plasma has rapid transport with the confinement provided by a surrounding annulus of magnetic surfaces with low transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o. 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: Codes can follow an optimized curl-free initial state to a final full-pressure equilibrium. The large size of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}