Bryan-Beeman Room, Hyatt Regency Dallas
November 15, 2008, pre-APS DPP, Dallas, TX
Model development:
8:45-9:15 Jeong-Young
Ji—Update on classical and general closures from moment
approach
9:15-9:45 Eric
Held—Continuum solution to the drift kinetic equation in NIMROD: speed
dependence and
parallelization issues
9:45-10:15 Jianhua
Cheng—Implicit
Lorentz ion, drift/gyro kinetic
electron MHD closure
break
10:25-10:40 Eric
Howell (presented by Carl Sovinec) —NIMEQ Grad-Shafranov solver
Performance development and scaling:
10:40-10:55 Carl
Sovinec—Data/loop reordering for parallel efficiency
10:55-11:10 Charlson
Kim—Review
and status of particles in NIMROD
11:10-11:25 Charlson
Kim—
Initial flux injection simulations of a
coplanar gun
11:25-11:55 Richard
Milroy--
Progress in FRC simulations
using NIMROD
lunch break
1:00-1:30 Ryoji
Takahashi—
Kinetic effects of energetic
particles on resistive MHD stability
1:30-2:00 Tom
Jenkins—Modeling of
RF/MHD coupling using NIMROD and GENRAY
2:00-2:30 Scott
Kruger—
Modeling parallel heat transport in the
vicinity of a single-helicity
island
2:30-3:00 Jacob
King—Two-fluid
dynamo studies with NIMROD
3:00-3:30 Fatima Ebrahimi--Linear
and nonlinear computations of pressure-driven
instabilities in RFP
break
3:40-4:10 Ping
Zhu—Two-fluid
ballooning simulations
4:10-4:30 Bonita
Squires—Update on peeling/ballooning
benchmark with ELITE
4:30-5:00 Chris
Carey—Rotational stabilization of
jet kinks
5:00-5:30 Mark
Schlutt—Update: modeling a straight stellarator using NIMROD
5:50 Discussion
of dates and location for the next meeting
adjourn
team dinner