Publication List

Below is a running list of papers which utilize or build on the software.

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Papers extending DESC functionality

  1. D.W. Dudt and E. Kolemen. (2020). DESC: A stellarator equilibrium solver. [Physics of Plasmas] [pdf]

  2. D. Panici, R. Conlin, D.W. Dudt, K.E. Unalmis, and E. Kolemen. (2023). The DESC Stellarator Code Suite Part I: Quick and accurate equilibria computations. [JPP] [pdf]

  3. R. Conlin, D.W. Dudt, D. Panici, and E. Kolemen. (2023). The DESC Stellarator Code Suite Part II: Perturbation and continuation methods. [JPP] [pdf]

  4. D.W. Dudt, R. Conlin, D. Panici, and E. Kolemen. (2023). The DESC Stellarator Code Suite Part III: Quasi-symmetry optimization. [JPP] [pdf]

  5. D.W. Dudt, A.G. Goodman, R. Conlin, D. Panici, and E. Kolemen. (2024). Magnetic Fields with General Omnigenity. [JPP] [pdf]

  6. P. Kim et al. (2024). Optimization of Nonlinear Turbulence in Stellarators. [JPP] [pdf]

  7. R. Gaur, R. Conlin, D. Dickinson, J.F. Parisi, D. Panici, D.W. Dudt, P. Kim, K.E. Unalmis, W.D. Dorland, and E. Kolemen. (2024). Omnigenous stellarators with improved ideal and kinetic ballooning stability. [Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion] [pdf]

  8. R. Conlin, P. Kim, D.W. Dudt, D. Panici, and E. Kolemen. (2024). Stellarator optimization with constraints. [JPP] [pdf]

  9. K.E. Unalmis et al. (2024). Spectrally accurate, reverse-mode differentiable bounce-averaging algorithm and its applications. [pdf]

  10. R. Conlin, J. Schilling, D.W. Dudt, D. Panici, R. Jorge, and E. Kolemen. (2024). High Order Free Boundary MHD Equilibria in DESC. [pdf]

  11. R. Gaur, D. Panici, T.M. Elder, M. Landreman, K.E. Unalmis, Y. Elmacioglu, D.W. Dudt, R. Conlin, and E. Kolemen. (2025). Omnigenous umbilic stellarators. [pdf]

  12. D. Panici, E. Rodriguez, R. Conlin, D.W. Dudt, and E. Kolemen. (2025). Extending near-axis equilibria in DESC. [pdf]

  13. D. Panici et al. (2025). Surface Current Optimization and Coil-Cutting Algorithms for Stage-Two Stellarator Optimization. [pdf]

Papers applying DESC

  1. M. Landreman. (2022). Mapping the space of quasisymmetric stellarators using optimized near-axis expansion. [JPP] [pdf]

  2. R. Nies, E.J. Paul, D. Panici, S.R. Hudson, and A. Bhattacharjee. (2024). Exploration of the parameter space of quasisymmetric stellarator vacuum fields through adjoint optimization. [JPP] [pdf]

  3. C.P.S. Swanson, D.A. Gates, S.T.A. Kumar, M.F. Martin, T.G. Kruger, D.W. Dudt, P.J. Bonofiglo, and the Thea Energy team. (2025). The scoping, design, and plasma physics optimization of the Eos neutron source stellarator. [Nuclear Fusion]

  4. P.J. Bonofiglo, D.W. Dudt, and C.P.S. Swanson. (2025). Fast ion confinement in quasi-axisymmetric stellarator equilibria. [Nuclear Fusion]

  5. D.A. Gates et al. (2025). Stellarator fusion systems enabled by arrays of planar coils. [Nuclear Fusion]

  6. C.C. Hegna et al. (2025). The Infinity Two fusion pilot plant baseline plasma physics design. [JPP]

  7. S.R. Hudson, D. Panici, C. Zhu, G.S. Woodbury Saudeau, A. Baillod, M. Cianciosa, and A.S. Ware. (2025). Verification of the Shafranov shift in free-boundary VMEC, DESC, and SPEC calculations with elliptical geometry. [Physics of Plasmas]

  8. L. Fu, E. Rodriguez, R. Conlin, and A. Bhattacharjee. (2025). Numerical asymptotics of near-axis expansions of quasisymmetric magnetohydrostatic equilibria with anisotropic pressure. [pdf]

  9. S.A. Cadena et al. (2025). ConStellaration: A dataset of QI-like stellarator plasma boundaries and optimization benchmarks. [pdf]

  10. M. Landreman, J.Y. Choi, C. Alves, P. Balaprakash, M. Churchill, R. Conlin, and G. Roberg-Clark. (2025). How does ion temperature gradient turbulence depend on magnetic geometry? Insights from data and machine learning. [JPP] [pdf]

  11. R. Wu, T.G. Kruger, and C.P.S. Swanson. (2025). Planar coil optimization for the Eos stellarator using sparse regression. [Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion] [pdf]

  12. T. Jeong, J. Jang, D. Panici, R. Gaur, H. Liu, R. Conlin, C. Zhu, E. Kolemen, and J.-K. Park. (2025). Robustness of quasi-symmetry along parametric boundary variation. [Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion]