November
14, 2015, Savannah, Georgia
Harbor A,
Westin Savannah Harbor
Computational
development:
8:30-9:00 Carl
Sovinec—New work on free-boundary equilibrium
computations
Physical model development:
9:00-9:30 Jeong-Young Ji—
Electron
parallel closures for arbitrary ion charge number
Applications:
9:30-10:00 Fatima Ebrahimi—Update on CHI in NSTX-U and preliminary
computations for
C-Mod
analysis
10:00-10:15 break
10:15-10:45 Bick
Hooper—
Nonaxisymmetric effects in strongly
driven Coaxial Helicity
Injection
in simulations of NSTX
10:45-11:15 Kyle Bunkers—
Linear
stability and nonlinear external kink evolution
11:15-11:45 Josh Sauppe—
Linear resistive drift mode and toroidal effects in RFP tearing
modes
11:45-12:15 Tom Jenkins—
Modeling
Giant Sawtooth Modes with PIC Closures in NIMROD:
Recent
Progress
12:15-1:30 lunch break
1:30-2:00 Eric
Howell—Developments on 2-fluid internal kink benchmarking
2:00-2:30 Nick
Roberds—
Convergence properties of sawtooth simulations in CTH
2:30-3:00 Valerie
Izzo—Progress on MGI modeling with rotation
3:00-3:30 Torrin Bechtel—
Updates on Finite-Beta Stellarator Simulations
3:30-3:45 break
3:45-4:15 Jake
King—
Update on Meudas cases and the effect of
SOL profiles on
experimental constraints
4:15-4:45 Andi Becerra (presented by Jacob King)—
Using NIMROD
to find critical
normalized beta for RWM stability in NSTX equilibria
4:45-5:15 Kyle
Morgan—
Updates to HIT-SI modeling
5:15-5:45 Simon
Woodruff—3D MHD simulations of spheromak compression
team dinner