The Pleiades Code

The Pleiades code is designed for computing axisymmetric magnetic fields from combinations of electromagnets and permanent magnets with a focus on modeling plasma physics experiments. The project originated at the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory during experiments on the novel confinement device known as the Big Red Ball. Pleiades is written entirely in Python for now and is intended to be an easily accessible toolkit for computing and visualizing magnetic confinement geometries and data simultaneously.

Aside from simple computations of magnetic fields, there is a plasma MHD equilibrium solver incorporated into the package as well, which has been used to generate magnetic mirror equilibria and input files suitable for being run with the GENRAY and CQL3D codes for the design of the new Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror (WHAM) and its eventual upgrade to a neutron source (WHAM-NS).

The Pleiades code is available on github. Any and all feedback and contributions are welcome!

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