NIMROD Team Meeting Agenda
August 27-28, 2008
Held at: General Atomics, San-Diego, CA
Building 13, Room 215
Wednesday, Aug. 27
8:30-8:45 Welcoming and coffee
Model development:
8:45-9:15 Carl Sovinec and Eric Howell—Hyper-diffusivity and Grad-Shafranov solver
9:15-9:45 Jeong-Young Ji (presented by E. Held)—Implementation and application tests of
generalized moments
9:45-10:30 Eric Held— Continuum DKE computation in nimrod
break
10:45-11:15 Charlson Kim— High-order fields in particle advance and deposition
11:15-11:45 Scott Kruger— Update on coupling development for SWIM
11:45-12:15 Val Izzo— Tracing runaway electrons with NIMFL
lunch break
Performance development and scaling:
1:15-1:45 Ping Zhu— NIMROD on PlayStation 3
1:45-2:30 Carl Sovinec—Fourier-off-diagonal preconditioning and scaling of 2-fluid
computations
2:30-2:50 Eric Held— Scaling with nonlocal closures
2:50-3:10 Charlson Kim—Scaling with simulation particles
3:10-3:30 All—Scaling discussion
team building exercise
team dinner
Thursday, Aug. 28
Applications:
9:00-9:30 Bonita Squires—Peeling-ballooning in shifted-circle equilibria
9:30-9:50 Ping Zhu— Late nonlinear stage of tokamak ballooning
9:50-10:05 Mark Schlutt (presented by C. Hegna)— Finite-beta 3-D MHD equilibria
10:05-10:20 Andrea Montgomery (presented by C. Hegna)— beginning studies of resistive
wall mode/field error physics
break
10:30-11:00 Scott Kruger and Dylan Brennan— High-beta tearing modes
and error-field penetration in tokamaks, preliminary work
11:00-11:30 Carl Sovinec, Jake King, and Nick Murphy— Two-fluid 1/1 and tearing
11:30-12:00 Val Izzo— Dilution cooling in disruption mitigation simulations
12:00-12:30 Tom Jenkins (presented by D. Schnack)— Island-suppression simulations for
SWIM
lunch break
1:30-2:00 Charlson Kim—PSI-Center applications: LDX, SSX, and FRC
2:00-2:30 Chris Carey (presented by C. Sovinec)— Rotation stabilization of jet kinks
2:30-3:00 Adam Bayliss, John O’Bryan, Tom Bird (C. Sovinec)— Helicity injection
applications
3:00-3:30 Adam Bayliss (D. Schnack)— Simulations of spherical dynamo experiment
break
Project improvement:
3:45-4:15 Scott Kruger, Eric Held, Charlson Kim, and Val Izzo—updates (??)
4:15-4:30 Rostom Dagazian—view from Germantown
4:30 Discussion of dates and location for the next meeting
adjourn