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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 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. | ||
<ref>[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ctpp.200900010/abstract;jsessionid=4984B4F8ECA726F21E87571E4C98F904.d03t01 | <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> | ||
The code is being used at fusion laboratories all over the world: | The code is being used at fusion laboratories all over the world: | ||