Fix definition of b0 in vmec output #1012
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The quantity$\langle R B \rangle / \langle R \rangle$ where $\langle ... \rangle$ is a flux surface average. We currently compute it as
b0
output by VMEC is defined asDESC/desc/vmec.py
Lines 488 to 491 in 90d1ecb
This is fine in axisymmetry, but for stellarators we're using the major radius at phi=0 rather than the average.
This PR changes it to use the equivalent definition,
b0 = data_axis['<|B|>']
which avoids needing to deal with zero jacobians in the surface averages in the VMECIO part of things