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Python Application to Evaluate Stellarator Performance

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Abstract

The goal of this project is to create an interactive Python application to analyze and create visual representations of the performance of potential stellarator configurations. We use 0D scaling formulas used by Hammett et al. (2019), but the application is adaptable to more complex formulations. Our code provides a tool to explore the impact of changes in various parameters on stellarator efficiency. Our code generates optimized heating power estimate, volume averaged density, and helium concentration estimate values, which are then used to calculate a maximized fusion Q, and a minimized ISS-04 confinement multiplier within the design constraints of the proposed stellarator configuration. This tool is best used as a method to quickly and accurately identify and focus on attractive stellarator geometries.

Publication: N/A

Presenters

  • Nastassia Patnaik

    Brearley School, The Brearley School

Authors

  • Nastassia Patnaik

    Brearley School, The Brearley School

  • William D Dorland

    University of Maryland, College Park, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, University of Maryland Department of Physics, UMD

  • Michael C Zarnstorff

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, PPPL

  • Tony Qian

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, PPPL

  • Santiago Lisa

    Montgomery Blair High School, N/A, Montgomery Blair, Montgomery Blair HS

  • Nathaniel Stauffer

    UMD, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

  • Wenxi Wu

    University of Maryland,College Park, University of Maryland, College Park, UMD, U. of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

  • Chesson S. Sipling

    Georgia Tech, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Braden Buck

    Purdue University, Purdue U., Purdue Univ.

  • Sorah Fischer

    CUNY, City College of New York

  • Brian X Jiang

    Columbia University, Columbia U., Columbia Univ.

  • Dominic Seidita

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Purdue University, Purdue U.