Project Meetings

Archive of WISTELL Group Meetings:

  • May 05, 2022: Exploring Divertor Expansion Parameters (A. Bader)
  • April 29, 2022: Progress towards designing stellarator non-resonant divertors (A. Bader)
  • March 18, 2022: Julia stability calculations from CobraVmec (A. Bader)
  • March 11, 2021: Optimization for ITG Growth Rates with StellaratorOptimization.jl (Ben Faber)
  • October 15, 2021: QS Optimization with LASSO (Ben Faber, A. Bader)
  • September 24 2021: First Optimization results with LASSO (Ben Faber)
  • April 23, 2021: Fast modelling of energetic ion neoclassical losses in stellarators (Jose-Luis Velasco)
  • February 17, 2021: Alpha Confinement in LHD-like Equilibria (A. Bader)
  • February 12, 2021: Using PEST coordinates and VMEC coordinates: Cross-code benchmarks of VMEC coordinate transformations and the Gamma_c metric (J. Schmitt)
  • December 11, 2020: Comparisons of Stellarator onfigurations with respect to Alpha Confinement (A. Bader)
  • December 4, 2020: Stellarator optimization with Julia Part 2 (B. Faber) note: part 1 on October 16
  • November 11, 2020: Development of MHD simulation capability for stellarators (C. Sovinec)
  • October 16, 2020: Flexible stellarator optimization with Julia (B. Faber)
  • September 25, 2020: Ideal Ballooning Stability optimization through profle shaping in STELLOPT (J. Schroeder)
  • September 18, 2020: BEAMS3D mostly agrees with ANTS for collisionless alpha confinement in Aten (M. Landreman)
  • August 28, 2020: Ensuring evaluations do not depend on parametrization (A. Bader and T. Kruger)
  • August 21, 2020: Towards a finite beta equilibrium (A. Bader and J. Schmitt)
  • August 14, 2020: Preliminary Equilibrium optimization with Mango (B. Faber)
  • July 07, 2020: Penalty Functions in FOCUS to Constrain Stellarator Coil Optimization (T. Kruger)
  • May 05, 2020: Overview of Topical Areas for Stellarator Optimization (A. Bader)
  • April 10, 2020: Beta dependency of the bootstrap current, ideal MHD ballooning stability limits (J. Schmitt)
  • Feb 28, 2020: Numerical optimization of permanent magnets for stellarators with simple coils (C. Zhu
  • Feb 21, 2020: Non-Planar Coil Winding Angle Optimization for Compatibility with Non-Insulated High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets (C. Paz-Soldan)
  • Feb 14, 2020: Beta dependency of the bootstrap current and ideal MHD ballooning stability limits (J. Schmitt)
  • Feb 7 2020: Numerical Evaluation of 3D Local Equilibria (J. Duff)
  • Jan 31 2020: Mango: Multiprocessor Algorithms for Non-Gradient Optimization (M. Landreman)
  • Jan 24 2020: Alpha confinement on ATEN with collisional ANTS (part 2) (A. Bader)
  • Jan 10 2020: Alpha confinement on ATEN with collisional ANTS (A. Bader)
  • Dec 12, 2019: Exploration of O((r/R)^2) solution space for direct construction method (J. Schroeder)
  • Nov 1, 2019: Coil ripple, asymmetry, and stability (J. Schmitt)
  • Aug 23, 2019:  Coil Optimization for Aten Using New Curvature Functions(T. Kruger)
  • Aug 09, 2019: Candidate configurations for Wistell (A. Bader)
  • Jul 19, 2019: Optimizing for QHS in Stellopt (J. Schroeder)
  • Jul 12, 2019: A five field period configuration (A. Ware) Improving EP confinement on the 5fp configuration (A. Bader)
  • Jun 14, 2019: Initial optimization of Gamma_c with STELLOPT (A. Bader)
  • Apr 18, 2019: Adjoint methods for efficient stellarator optimization and sensitivity analysis (E. Paul – Sherwood Invited talk)
  • Mar 22, 2019: Physics design of Stellarators (A. Bader – Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas overview talk)
  • Mar 1, 2019: Winding Surface Optimization of QHS46 and ATEN with adjoint REGCOIL (E. Paul)
  • Feb 9, 2019: Higher aspect ratio configurations (A. Bader)
  • Feb 1, 2019: Divertor Modeling (H. Frerichs) and Alpha particles (A. Bader)
  • Jan 4, 2019: Alpha Particles (A. Bader) and Ballooning Stability (J. Schmitt)
  • Dec 14, 2018: Preliminary COBRAVMEC runs by J. Schmitt.
  • Nov 23, 2018: Coils for ATEN by T. Kruger.
  • Nov 16, 2018: Configuration ATEN with ‘simple’ bootstrap current model by J. Schmitt
  • Oct 19, 2018: Update on REGCOIL/Stellopt with BFGS optimization by J. Schmitt.
  • Oct 12, 2018: Test optimization for turbulence using PTSM3D by B. Faber
  • Oct 5, 2018: Optimization for Energetic Particles by A. Bader
  • Sep 28, 2018: Optimized stellarators without optimization by M. Landreman and a brief update on energetic particle optimization by A. Bader
  • Sep 21, 2018: Benchmarking STELLOPT and ROSE by A. Bader
  • Sept 14, 2018: Two presentations on the optimization activites at NIFS by Y. Suzuki
  • Sept 7, 2018: Update on turbulence optimization and optimization tools by B. Faber
  • Aug 24, 2018: Overview of collaboration with A. Ware and M. Drevlak by A. Bader
  • Jul 27, 2018: Update on BEAMS3D and Turbulence metric by A. Bader
  • Jul 6, 2018: Update on Turbulence optimization by A. Bader
  • Jun 22, 2018: Alpha particle lifetimes by A. Ware
  • May 18, 2018: Summary of Wistell to date by A. Bader
  • May 11, 2018: Update on regcoil/stellopt optimization by J. Schmitt
  • May 04, 2018: Comparison of GIST and STELLOPT by A. Bader
  • April 20, 2018: Winding surface optimization by J. Schmitt
  • April 6, 2018
  • March 30, 2018
  • March 23, 2018
  • March 16, 2018
  • March 9, 2018
  • February 23, 2018

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