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🌀 Stellarator Magnetic Confinement - 2D Poincare Section, Magnetic Islands and Field-Line Chaos

The 2D companion of the stellarator cutaway: a Poincare section of magnetic field lines with rotational transform and shear, a helical error field that opens magnetic islands, and the Chirikov overlap criterion for chaos.

Physics & Mechanics2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

StellaratorMagnetic ConfinementPoincare SectionPlasma Physics

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install