Exploratory action StellaCage

Inria, through its program Exploratory Actions is supporting a collaboration between CAGE, Yannick Privat (team TONUS), and Francesco Volpe, CEO of the startup Renaissance Fusion, based in Grenoble.

StellaCage approaches the problem of designing better stellarators (yielding better confinement, with simpler coils, capable of higher fields) by combining geometrical properties of magnetic field lines from the control perspective with shape optimization techniques.

Open post-doc position

Laplace force on the coil winding surface (image by Rémi Robin)

Project publications

• Y. Privat, R. Robin, and M. Sigalotti, Optimal shape of stellarators for magnetic confinement fusion, preprint.
• R. Robin and F. Volpe, Minimization of magnetic forces on Stellarator coils , preprint.