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Straight equilibria with helical symmetry have been investigated extensively as a source of promising stellarator configurations. In our earliest work on the variational method they have led us to unduly optimistic conclusions about the stabilizing effect of l = 3 harmonic Δ33 ≠ 0 on high β stellarators [3]. That misconception was the outgrowth of surprising resolution of the first version of our code in the case of the Scyllac experiment at Los Alamos, which showed it to be unstable to the most dangerous m = 1, n = 0 mode even on the crudest meshes.
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Bauer, F., Betancourt, O., Garabedian, P. (1984). Heliac. In: Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium and Stability of Stellarators. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5240-5_9
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