August 3-5, 2011, Cherry Room, Riverwoods Conference Center
615 S. Riverwoods Parkway, Logan, Utah
Wednesday, August 3
8:30-8:45 Welcoming and coffee
Applications:
8:45-9:30 Bick Hooper—Modeling transient CHI in NSTX
9:30-10:15 Carl Sovinec—Zero-beta computations of CHI in HIT-II
break
10:30-11:15 Dylan Brennan—Kinetic effects of energetic particles on a 2/1 resistive tearing
mode in DIII-D
11:15-12:00 Tom Jenkins—ECCD-induced tearing-mode stabilization
lunch
1:30-2:15 Mark Schlutt—Update on stellarator modeling using NIMROD
2:15-3:00 Valerie Izzo—Disruption modeling progress
3:00-3:45 Ping Zhu—Stabilizing effects of edge current density in peeling-ballooning
break
Computation and solvers:
4:00-5:00 Allen Sanderson—Update on field-line analysis & Mini VISIT tutorial
team dinner
Thursday, August 4
8:45-9:30 Andy Spencer—Adapting NIMROD to solve the Fokker-Planck equation
9:30-10:15 Eric Held—Preconditioning DKE solves in NIMROD for transport time-scale
calculations
break
10:30-11:15 Carl Sovinec—Update on interchange convergence study
11:15-12:00 Scott Kruger—TBA
12:00-12:45 Charlson Kim—New developments in hybrid kinetic-MHD
lunch and team-building activity
Friday, August 5
Model development:
e9:00-9:45 Jeong-Young Ji—Parallel closures in the collisionless limit
9:45-10:30 Mukta Sharma—Parallel electron heat flow closure in an inhomogeneous
magnetic field
break
10:45-11:30 Ping Zhu—ITG-driven instability in extended-MHD
11:30-12:15 Richard Datwyler Two-species plasma fluid tests with 2D Fourier transform
analysis
adjourn