Reactor Configuration Development for ARIES-CS

Author

Ku, L.P.

Author_Institution

Princeton Plasma Phys. Lab., NJ

fYear

2005

fDate

Sept. 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

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 alpha particles and good integrity of flux surfaces at high beta. 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

Keywords

fusion reactor design; plasma inertial confinement; plasma transport processes; stellarators; ARIES-CS reactor configuration development; alpha particle losses; flux surface integrity; low field ripples; low order resonances; plasma confinement; quasiaxially symmetric stellarator configurations; rotational transforms; transport properties; Fusion reactors; Inductors; Magnetic resonance; Magnetohydrodynamics; Physics; Plasma confinement; Plasma density; Plasma properties; Stochastic resonance; Tokamaks; equilibrium flux surfaces; fusion reactor; low aspect ratio; quasi-axisymmetry; stellarator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering 2005, Twenty-First IEEE/NPS Symposium on

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

Print_ISBN

0-4244-0150-X

Electronic_ISBN

0-4244-0150-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.2005.252953

Filename

4018987