Re:Wendelstein 7-X – a fusion reactor with a twist
by skimpycompiler on Friday October 23, 2015 @03:18PM
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Yeah, it was probably something symmetrical in the laws that allowed them to simulate only single part of the coil - saving the computing time and lowering the search space, stacking up resulted in full coil.
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Re:Wendelstein 7-X – a fusion reactor with a twist
by theoh on Friday October 23, 2015 @05:48PM
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I'm not sure about the laws you refer to. It seems to me that the constraint is that for a twisting ribbon-like plasma they had to have an integral number of twists or half twists in a complete circuit, not twisting too sharply, not too gradually.