Flexibility and Robustness Calculations for NCSX
Authors: N. Pomphrey, R. Hatcher, S.P. Hirshman, S. Hudson, L-P Ku, E.A. Lazarus, H. Mynick, D. Monticello, G.H. Neilson, A. Reiman, M.C. Zarnstorff, and the NCSX Team
Date of PPPL Report: June 2002
Presented at: the 29th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, June 17-21, 2002, Montreux, Switzerland.
The National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) will study the physics of low aspect ratio, high beta quasi-axisymmetric stellarators. In order to achieve the scientific goals of the NCSX mission, the device must be capable of supporting a wide range of variations in plasma configuration about a reference equilibrium. Numerical experiments are presented which demonstrate this capability.