October 25, 2014, New Orleans, Louisiana
Galerie 5, New Orleans Marriott
This team meeting will follow a discussion-oriented format. Listed speakers should plan for brief (~20 min.) presentations to summarize their topics with the intent of stimulating the discussion sessions. Everyone is welcome to bring slides for the discussion periods.
8:30-8:45
Welcoming and coffee
8:45-10:15
Computational topics:
Carl Sovinec—
Hyper-resistivity
and other "stabilization" methods
Jake King—Coupling
of Fluxgrid and NIMEQ
Discussion of these and other NIMROD
computational topics
10:15-10:30 break
10:30-12:00 Physical model development:
John O'Bryan—
Generalized fluid
viscosity model and log(n) evolution
Andi Becerra—
Refining
the general RW boundary condition and application to NSTX equilibria
Kyle
Bunkers—
Numerical vacuum region for VDE computations
Discussion of these and other NIMROD model
development topics
12:00-1:30 lunch break
1:30-4:45 Applications:
Tom Jenkins—
Giant sawtooth
modeling
Bick
Hooper—
Application to CHI startup in NSTX
Fatima Ebrahimi—CHI for NSTX-U and
Hall MRI
Jonathan Hebert—NIMROD modeling of CTH
Nick Roberds—
Unstable kink modes in a CTH-like tokamak
Chang Liu—A Hybrid Simulation Model for
Runaway Electron Interaction with Tearing Mode
Discussion
of these and other applications topics (including a break somewhere)
4:45-5:30 NIMROD output
discussion
adjourn
team dinner