ascot4fusion / ascot5

ASCOT5 is a high-performance orbit-following code for fusion plasma physics and engineering
https://ascot4fusion.github.io/ascot5/
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Stellarator test case and tutorial #103

Open miekkasarki opened 7 months ago

miekkasarki commented 7 months ago

Since i) we can't use any non-public datasets ii) interpolating 3D data is expensive, there is a need for an analytical, yet realistic, representation of a stellarator field. This field would be used to test the stellarator machinery and to write a tutorial on how to work with stellarators when using ASCOT.

Any ideas for an analytical representation are welcome! Here's one possibility, but I didn't catch how exactly we can find psi and the components of B in cylindrical coordinates (which is what ASCOT uses):

Near-Axis Expansion of Stellarator Equilibrium at Arbitrary Order in the Distance to the Axis

As for the test case, the obvious one would be to test the neoclassical transport:

Theory of plasma confinement in non-axisymmetric magnetic fields