The Beta Equilibrium, Stability, and Transport Codes: Applications of the Design of Stellarators (Perspectives in Physics) by Frances Bauer (PDF)

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The Beta Equilibrium, Stability, and Transport Codes: Application to the Design of Stellarators covers the application of the BETA computer codes to the Heliotron E plasma confinement experiment. This book is the outgrowth of a collaboration between the Courant Institute at New York University and the Plasma Physics Laboratory at Kyoto University. After briefly dealing with the history of the codes and the design of new stellarator experiments, this five-chapter book goes on presenting 15 typical runs of the BETA equilibrium, stability, and transport codes. Included with each run is a statement relating the physics of the example to the computational model. The following chapters focus on the revisions of the BETA equilibrium code by implementing a simplified neoclassical transport theory defining the geometric confinement time output by the equilibrium code. The concluding chapter provides a FORTRAN listing of the transport code.

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⭐This is the “sequel” of sorts to the book Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium and Stability of Stellarators (1984) by the same authors. To appreciate this work, the reader should be familiar with that earlier work (which contains a copy of the BETA code) as well as plasma physics and MHD. In the previous book, the authors present their Fortran 77 code in about 80 pages and it performs calculations at the macroscopic level, treating the stellarator plasma as a vast collection of charged particles. This book describes various sets of input parameters that can be used to simulate various real world devices like the Heliotron E or the ATF-1. It also provides updates to the original BETA code in order to calculate quantities at the particle level, like particle orbits using the guiding center and drift kinetic models (neoclassical transport as it’s called). While the 1984 book as well as this book are generally considered obsolete by modern researchers in the field, I am currently using them to implement the BETA code in a more modern language like Java or C#. As such, this book is invaluable to me in that effort.

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