Magnetic Fields with General Omnigenity

POSTER

Abstract

Omnigenity is a desirable property of toroidal magnetic fields that ensures confinement of trapped particles. All the ideal magnetohydrodynamic equilibria previously found to approximate omnigenity have been either axisymmetric, quasi-symmetric, or have poloidally closed contours of magnetic field strength |B|. However, general omnigenous equilibria are a much larger design space than these subsets with hidden symmetries. A new model is presented and employed in the DESC stellarator optimization suite to represent and discover the full parameter space of omnigenous equilibria. Examples far from quasi-symmetry with poloidally, helically, and toroidally closed |B| contours are shown to have low neoclassical collisional transport and fast particle losses.

*This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract numbers DE-AC02-09CH11466, DE-SC0022005 and Field Work Proposal No. 1019.

Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08026

Presenters

  • Daniel W Dudt

    • Princeton University

Authors

  • Daniel W Dudt

    • Princeton University
  • Alan Goodman

    • Max-Planck Institute, Greifswald, Germany
    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
  • Rory Conlin

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University
  • Dario Panici

    • Princeton University
  • Egemen Kolemen

    • Princeton University