Stellarator symmetry

✍ Scribed by R.L. Dewar; S.R. Hudson

• Book ID: 104297333
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 450 KB
• Volume: 112
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-2789
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2789(97)00216-9

✦ Synopsis

A simple and general definition of stellarator symmetry is presented and its relation to previous definitions discussed. It is shown that the field-line flow in systems possessing stellarator symmetry is time-reversal invariant ff the the toroidal angle is regarded as "time".