Using the nonlinear gyrokinetic code package GENE/GIST, we study the turbulent transport in a broad family of stellarator designs, to understand the geometry-de
Turbulent transport is responsible for much of the energy and particle losses in present-day fusion plasma experiments, and optimization to reduce turbulence wi
The ability to optimize stellarator geometry to reduce transport has led to renewed interest in stellarators for magnetic confinement fusion. In this thesis, tu
There has been an increase in interest worldwide in fusion research over the last decade and a half due to the recognition that a large number of new, environme