Tutorial: NCSX NESCOIL Example

This tutorial will walk the user through running the NESCOIL code for generating a coil based on NCSX. Before beginning the user should run the BNORM NCSX tutorial to generate a bnorm and nescin file.

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Run the NESCOIL code

From the directory where the VMEC nescin and bnorm files are located execute the NESCOIL code.

>~/bin/xnescoil nescin.ncsx_c09r00_fixed

Examine the output.

The NESCOIL code will generate a nescout.ncsx_c09r00_fixed file containing the output current potential of the nescoil code. The results can be plotted using the pySTEL python routine nescoil_util.py.

Cut coils

The python utility nescoil_util.py can be used to cut coils from the NESCOIL current potential.