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List of Variables
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Guides

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Equilibrium Solve Tutorials

Basic Equilibrium
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Continuation method step by step
Near axis constraints
Free boundary equilibrium

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Basic QS Optimization
Advanced QS Optimization
REGCOIL-Like Coil Optimization in DESC
Omnigenity Optimization
Bootstrap Current Self-Consistency
Stage-Two Filamentary Coil Optimization
Quadratic Flux Minimizing Surfaces
Infinite-\(n\) ideal ballooning stability optimization
Neoclassical transport and fast ions

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Command Line Interface
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How do we solve Equilibrium?
Collocation grids
Adding new physics quantities
Adding new objective functions
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DESC

Objectives, Optimizers, and Grids
desc.objectives.ExternalObjective
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desc.objectives.ExternalObjective.grad

ExternalObjective.grad(*args, **kwargs)Source : Compute gradient vector of self.compute_scalar wrt x.

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