I’m not sure this is unrelated: Naively, this idea would allow for turbulent “burning” regions within an otherwise smooth flow around a ring. The idea of a smo

I’m not sure this is unrelated: Naively, this idea would allow for turbulent “burning” regions within an otherwise smooth flow around a ring. The idea of a smooth boundary on your plasma constrained by magnets which has turbulent interior regions may turn out to be useful.