Reactor Configuration Development for ARIES-CS

Technical Report · Tue Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/899519· OSTI ID:899519

Ku LP, the ARIES-CS Team

New compact, quasi-axially symmetric stellarator configurations have been developed as part of the ARIES-CS reactor studies. These new configurations have good plasma confinement and transport properties, including low losses of α particles and good integrity of flux surfaces at high β. We summarize the recent progress by showcasing two attractive classes of configurations — configurations with judiciously chosen rotational transforms to avoid undesirable effects of low order resonances on the flux surface integrity and configurations with very small aspect ratios (∼2.5) that have excellent quasi-axisymmetry and low field ripples.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 899519
• Report Number(s): PPPL-4108
• Resource Relation: Related Information: Presented at: the Twenty-First Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE2005), 26 - 29 September 2005, Knoxville, Tennessee USA.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
stellarator
quasi-axisymmetry
fusion reactor
low aspect ratio
equilibrium flux surfaces