Coordinated Working Group

Purpose and Tasks

Stellarator-Heliotron research aims at an alternative fusion reactor concept employing magnetic confinement of fusion plasmas by 3D fields.

An important task in the development of 3D , helical devices is the intermachine comparison of confinement and transport. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the international cooperation in this area, a joint database has been established. The general philosophy of the International Stellarator-Heliotron Profile Database (ISHPDB [IPP mirror, NIFS mirror) is to collect and assess contributions for a concise documentation of Stellarator-Heliotron performance. The Coordinated Working Group (CWG) aligns the international collaboration within the International Stellarator-Heliotron Profile Database (ISHPDB).

The ISHPDB is jointly hosted by Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (Greifswald, Germany) and National Institute for Fusion Science (Toki, Japan) under auspices of the IEA Implementing Agreement for Cooperation in Development of the Stellarator Concept (2.10.1992).

Physic Topics

• Transport and Confinement
  • Global Confinement
  • Neoclassical Transport
  • Turbulent Transport
  • Edge and SOL Transport
  • Impurity Transport

• High Beta Operation
• Fast Particle Physics
• H-mode in 3D devices
• Reactor Operation

Related Discussions

• Stellarators and Heliotrons
• 3D codes