An adjoint-based method for optimising MHD equilibria against the infinite-n, ideal ballooning mode

Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) 0103 physical sciences FOS: Physical sciences 01 natural sciences Physics - Plasma Physics
DOI: 10.1017/s0022377823000995 Publication Date: 2023-10-31T10:15:37Z
ABSTRACT
We demonstrate a fast adjoint-based method to optimise tokamak and stellarator equilibria against a pressure-driven instability known as the infinite- $n$ ideal ballooning mode. We present three finite- $\beta$ (the ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure) equilibria: one tokamak equilibrium and two stellarator equilibria that are unstable against the ballooning mode. Using the self-adjoint property of ideal magnetohydrodynamics, we construct a technique to rapidly calculate the change in the eigenvalue, a measure of ideal ballooning instability. Using the SIMSOPT optimisation framework, we then implement our fast adjoint gradient-based optimiser to minimise the eigenvalue and find stable equilibria for each of the three originally unstable equilibria.
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