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Determination of 3D Equilibria from Flux Surface Knowledge Only

Authors: H.E. Mynick and N. Pomphrey

Date of PPPL Report: Date of PPPL Report: November 2001

Published in: Physics of Plasmas 9 (March 2002) pp 1050-1052

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.