Stellarators are a class of candidate fusion reactors based on magnetic confinement. The numerous design criteria and three-dimensional shaping of the magnetic field makes designing stellarators both time-consuming and computationally expensive. In this talk, we will show how the process of designing both the coils and the plasma can be reduced from hours on a cluster to just minutes on a laptop. To do this, we present a coil design paradigm for achieving magnetic confinement in stellarators with a pressure gradient. Our approach directly optimizes coil shapes and coil currents to produce a finite-beta quasi-symmetric magnetic field with a target rotational transform on the magnetic axis.
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