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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 33 | Number 2 | March 1998 | Pages 67-83
Basic Theory and Fusion Devices | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11946996
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The properties of a classical stellarator will be described and the need to optimise stellarators will be motivated. The principles of optimisation will be presented. W7-AS, a partly optimised modular stellarator, will be briefly introduced and some results with relevance to its optimised properties will be summarised. The fully optimised large stellarator W7-X will be described and the progress in optimisation from W7-AS to W7-X will be discussed. The possible design of an optimised stellarator reactor will be presented.
