Abstract
We develop the formalism of the first-order near-axis expansion of the magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium equations described by Garren & Boozer (Phys. Fluids B, vol. 3, issue 10, 1991, pp. 2805–2821) and Plunk et al. (J. Plasma Phys., vol. 85, issue 6, 2019; J. Plasma Phys., vol. 87, issue 6, 2021) for the case of a quasi-isodynamic,
$N$
-field-period, stellarator-symmetric, single-well magnetic field equilibrium. The importance of the magnetic axis shape is investigated, and we conclude that control of the curvature and torsion is crucial to obtain omnigenous configurations with finite aspect ratio and low effective ripple, especially for a higher number of field periods. For this reason a method is derived to construct classes of axis shapes with favourable curvature and torsion. Solutions are presented, including a three-field-period configuration constructed at an aspect ratio of
$A=20$
, with a maximum elongation of
$e=3.2$
and an effective ripple under
$1\,\%$
, which demonstrates that high elongation is not a necessary feature of quasi-isodynamic stellarators.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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