The Focus Fusion Society Forums Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Experiment (LPPX) CAD Help Needed Reply To: Contour Crafting – Radical change in housing

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Milemaster wrote:
Now, we could make this vertical grooves slightly Helical, (Rifled) This will induce a circular motion to the plasma, similar to the effect of the coil and improving the filament formation allowing to manage the plasmoid size.

The other potential problem with the helical geometry is someone has a patent on that approach.