May 1-2, 2009
Held at: Tech-X Corporation
5621 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder CO
Friday, May 1
8:45-9:00 Welcoming and coffee
Performance development and scaling:
9:00-9:30 Carl
Sovinec—Newton-Krylov in NIMROD
9:30-10:00 Travis
Austin—Overview of algebraic multigrid (AMG) work
Model development:
10:00-10:30 Jeong-Young
Ji—General closure theory for magnetized plasma
break
10:40-11:10 Jianhua
Cheng—Progress on MHD closure with kinetic ions and drift-kinetic
electrons
Project improvement:
11:10-11:40 Scott
Kruger, discussion leader—Repositories and regression test discussion
11:40-12:10 Charlson
Kim—Visualization of nonlinear screw pinch simulations
lunch break
1:20-1:50 Ryoji
Takahashi—Preliminary results on kinetic effects of energetic particles
on
nonlinear
resistive MHD stability
1:50-2:20 Dalton
Schnack—Preliminary results on Giant Sawtooth
modeling
2:20-2:50 Tom Jenkins—Modeling ECCD stabilization of resistive
tearing modes
2:50-3:20 Val
Izzo—Progress and plans for runaway electron tracking and disruption
modeling
break
3:30-4:00 Mark
Schlutt—Update on modeling a straight stellarator with NIMROD
4:00-4:30 Ping Zhu—Two-fluid ballooning simulation
4:30-5:00 Bonita
Squires—Ideal linear benchmarking between NIMROD, ELITE, and
GATO
team dinner
Saturday, May 1
9:00-9:30 Tom
Bird, John O'Bryan, and Eric Howell (presented by Sovinec)—Updates on
helicity
injection modeling
9:30-10:00 Jake
King—RFP two-fluid and single helicity modeling
10:00-10:15 Rostom
Dagazian—view from Germantown
10:15-10:30 Discussion
of dates and location for the next meeting
adjourn
travel to Denver for CEMM / Sherwood