March 22-23, 2014, San Diego, California
Bahia Hotel, Mission Bay Ballroom E (5th floor)
Saturday, March 22
8:15-8:30
Welcoming and coffee
Numerical
methods:
8:30-9:00 Ben
Sturdevant—Sub-cycling and orbit-averaging
algorithms
Physical
model development and analysis:
9:00-9:45 Jake
King—EHO
modeling and the ideal-like limit
9:45-10:30 Andi Becerra—General
resistive-wall boundary
and applications to large R/a torus and NSTX
10:30-10:40 break
10:40-11:25 Carl Sovinec—Implicit thin-wall and related information
11:25-12:10 Eric
Held—Progress on continuum closures in
NIMROD
12:10-1:15 lunch break
Applications:
1:15-2:00 John
O'Bryan—Simulated flux rope evolution and
relaxation during non-
inductive startup in the Pegasus ST (practice for oral
session)
2:00-2:45 Valerie
Izzo—Modeling MGI with field errors
2:45-3:30 Tom Jenkins—Giant sawtooth:
status, plans, and potential issues
3:30-4:15 Ping
Zhu—Update on DIII-D RMP computations
discussion / dinner
8:45-9:30 Jonathan
Hebert—NIMROD modeling of CTH
9:30-10:15 Eric
Howell—Pressure-driven spheromak modes and
nonlinear saturation
10:15-10:30 break
10:30-11:15 Josh Sauppe—Computations and analysis of nonlinear
two-fluid relaxation
11:15-12:00 Fatima Ebrahimi—Magnetic reconnection in NSTX
adjourn