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Due to its speed in computing the MHD equilibrium problem in 3-D it has become the "de facto" standard code for calculating 3-D equilibria. This means that practically all the laboratories  
Due to its speed in computing the MHD equilibrium problem in 3-D it has become the "de facto" standard code for calculating 3-D equilibria. This means that practically all the laboratories  
with stellerator devices uses it. It has also been used to model tokamak equilibria and lately (2010) it has been applied to reverse field pinches, in particular helical equilibria (non-axisymmetric) in the RFX-Mod.
with stellerator devices routinely use it. It has also been used to model tokamak equilibria and lately (2010) it has been applied to reverse field pinches, in particular helical equilibria (non-axisymmetric) in the RFX-Mod.
<ref>[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ctpp.200900010/abstract;jsessionid=4984B4F8ECA726F21E87571E4C98F904.d03t01 D. Terranova et al., ''Self-Organized Helical Equilibria in the RFX-Mod Reversed Field Pinch'',  Contributions to Plasma Physics '''50''' (2010) 775–779]</ref>
<ref>[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ctpp.200900010/abstract;jsessionid=4984B4F8ECA726F21E87571E4C98F904.d03t01 D. Terranova et al., ''Self-Organized Helical Equilibria in the RFX-Mod Reversed Field Pinch'',  Contributions to Plasma Physics '''50''' (2010) 775–779]</ref>


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