A comprehensive exploration of quasisymmetric stellarators and their coil sets

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Autores principales: Giuliani, Andrew, Rodríguez, Eduardo, Spivak, Marina
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author Giuliani, Andrew
Rodríguez, Eduardo
Spivak, Marina
author_facet Giuliani, Andrew
Rodríguez, Eduardo
Spivak, Marina
contents We augment the `QUAsi-symmetric Stellarator Repository' (QUASR) to include vacuum field stellarators with quasihelical symmetry using a globalized optimization workflow. The database now has almost 370,000 quasisaxisymmetry and quasihelically symmetric devices along with coil sets, optimized for a variety of aspect ratios, rotational transforms, and discrete rotational symmetries. This paper outlines a couple of ways to explore and characterize the data set. We plot devices on a near-axis quasisymmetry landscape, revealing close correspondence to this predicted landscape. We also use principal component analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the data so that it can easily be visualized in two or three dimensions. Principal component analysis also gives a mechanism to compare the new devices here to previously published ones in the literature. We are able to characterize the structure of the data, observe clusters, and visualize the progression of devices in these clusters. The topology of the data is governed by the interplay of the design constraints and valleys of the quasisymmetry objective. These techniques reveal that the data has structure, and that typically one, two or three principal components are sufficient to characterize it. The latest version of QUASR is archived at https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10050655 and can be explored online at quasr.flatironinstitute.org.
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spellingShingle A comprehensive exploration of quasisymmetric stellarators and their coil sets
Giuliani, Andrew
Rodríguez, Eduardo
Spivak, Marina
Applied Physics
Mathematical Physics
We augment the `QUAsi-symmetric Stellarator Repository' (QUASR) to include vacuum field stellarators with quasihelical symmetry using a globalized optimization workflow. The database now has almost 370,000 quasisaxisymmetry and quasihelically symmetric devices along with coil sets, optimized for a variety of aspect ratios, rotational transforms, and discrete rotational symmetries. This paper outlines a couple of ways to explore and characterize the data set. We plot devices on a near-axis quasisymmetry landscape, revealing close correspondence to this predicted landscape. We also use principal component analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the data so that it can easily be visualized in two or three dimensions. Principal component analysis also gives a mechanism to compare the new devices here to previously published ones in the literature. We are able to characterize the structure of the data, observe clusters, and visualize the progression of devices in these clusters. The topology of the data is governed by the interplay of the design constraints and valleys of the quasisymmetry objective. These techniques reveal that the data has structure, and that typically one, two or three principal components are sufficient to characterize it. The latest version of QUASR is archived at https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10050655 and can be explored online at quasr.flatironinstitute.org.
title A comprehensive exploration of quasisymmetric stellarators and their coil sets
topic Applied Physics
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04826