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<b>Determination of 3D Equilibria from Flux Surface Knowledge Only</b>
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<b>Authors:</b> H.E. Mynick and N. Pomphrey
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> Date of PPPL Report:</b> November 2001
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<b>Published in:</b> Physics of Plasmas <b>9</b> (March 2002) pp 1050-1052</p>


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We show that the method of Christiansen and Taylor, from which complete tokamak equilibria can be determined given only knowledge of the shape of the flux surfaces, can be extended to 3-dimensional equilibria, such as those of stellarators.  As for the tokamak case, the given geometric knowledge has a high degree of redundancy, so that the full equilibrium can be obtained using only a small portion of that information.




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