July 29-31, 2009
Univ. of WI-Madison, 106 Engineering Research
Building
Wednesday, July 29
8:30-8:45 Welcoming and coffee
Coding issues:
8:45-9:30 Carl
Sovinec—Surface-E in 2-fluid computations, data reordering, and
exploring
a
3D semi-implicit operator
9:30-10:00 Jake
King—Exploring ILU with SuperLU 4.0
10:00-10:30 Scott
Kruger—Status of NIMDEVEL
break
Model development:
10:45-11:30 Jeong-Young
Ji—Update on moment-based closures
11:30-12:15 Eric
Held—Continuum solution of the drift kinetic equation in NIMROD
12:15-12:45 Charlson
Kim—A review of energetic particles in NIMROD
lunch break
2:00-2:45 Fatima
Ebrahimi—Two-fluid and gyroviscous effects on RFP interchange
2:45-3:15 Eric
Howell—Extended MHD calculations of interchange in spheromak equilibria
3:15-4:00 Bonita
Burke (presented by Sovinec)—
Update on ELM benchmarking+
break
4:15-4:45 Ping
Zhu—Update on two-fluid ballooning
4:45-5:15 Mark
Schlutt—Update on straight stellarator modeling and analytics
5:15-5:45 Andrea
Montgomery—Resistive wall mode studies in NIMROD
team dinner
Thursday, July 30
8:30-9:15 Ryoji
Takahashi—Update on energetic particle effects on resonant MHD
9:15-10:00 Dylan
Brennan—Toroidal flow effects on 3/2 and 2/1 resistive modes driven by a
1/1 internal kink
10:00-10:30 Jake
King—Gyroviscous and two-fluid effects on tearing, coupling, and dynamo
break
10:45-11:30 Tom
Jenkins—ECCD-induced resistive tearing mode stabilization and rational
surface motion
11:30-11:50 Matt
Behlmann (presented by Brennan)—
An analytic slab tearing stability
problem with
constant current gradient
lunch break
1:00-1:45 Val
Izzo—Progress on runaway electron modeling
1:45-2:15 Dalton
Schnack—Brief summary and status of giant sawtooth calculations
2:15-3:00 Chris
Carey—Nonlinear evolution of kink unstable jets
team building
exercise
Friday, July 31
9:00-9:45 Charlson
Kim—Summary of PSI-Center simulation studies [file on RMF for FRCs]
9:45-10:15 Cihan
Akcay—Simulations of HIT-SI
10:15-10:45 Tom
Bird—Numerical simulations of current-channel relaxation for startup
10:45-11:15 John
O'Bryan—Simulations of non-inductive startup and flux compression
11:15-11:45 Jason
Gates (presented by Brennan)—Linear stability and nonlinear evolution of
helicity
injected spheromaks
11:45-12:15 Chris
Hegna—On ion diamagnetic stabilization of ideal ballooning modes in the
presence
of spatially varying omega-star_i
12:15-12:45 Review
of NIMROD-related CEMM goals and
discussion of
dates and location of next meeting
adjourn