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This treatise on magnetic-flux coordinates is intended to present a self-contained treatment of what are the natural coordinate systems for the description of magnetically confined plasmas. Flux coordinates are carefully chosen curvilinear coordinates with the property that the equation of a magnetic-field line, expressed in those coordinates, takes the form of a straight line. Sometimes we shall also refer to these coordinates systems as straight-B systems.
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D’haeseleer, W.D., Hitchon, W.N.G., Callen, J.D., Shohet, J.L. (1991). Introduction and Overview. In: Flux Coordinates and Magnetic Field Structure. Springer Series in Computational Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75595-8_1
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